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Lamont was a fourth generation legacy student whose great-grandfather??Thomas W. Lamont, class of 1892—was a partner at J.P. Morgan and the donor who gave Lamont Library its name...
...Free from the Chain Gang Now”), urging others to do so themselves. Cash’s gruff elegance is there in all of them, but he plods through them at a tortoise’s pace—or, perhaps, a grandfather??s. For those who think of Cash as family, this is comforting; for the rest, it’s vaguely condescending and distinctly boring. Regardless, hearing an artist compose his own eulogy is rare, rarer still for an artist of such influence. Cash’s malaise can’t hide the complexity...
...gets pneumonia, I treat it. And I will let him die without the burden of knowing. That’s what I have.”In some places, like the Central Hospital of Agadez, doctors still carry the small black leather bag of my great-grandfather??s generation. These doctors still administer false hope in lieu of the real thing.The AIDS crisis in Niger is acknowledged neither by doctors, who refuse patients tests, nor by epidemiologists, who subscribe to much deflated AIDS rate statistics. Though the percentage of infected individuals here is many times greater than...
...Heir” successfully explored the more universal themes of leaving home, finding serendipitous love, and appreciating the past for all the right reasons. The production chronicles the story of Theodore Jennings (Mac C. Bartels ’09) who inherits his grandfather??s most valuable possession: a desiccated vulture which allegedly belonged to a notorious Cincinnati thug. Against his avaricious family’s wishes, Theodore takes his family’s heirloom to the PBS show Antiques Roadshow to get appraised. Along the journey from his depressing home to public television, he meets an unlikely love...
...beer and shout “Kiss me, I’m Irish!” I can put up with the leprechaun costumes and green plastic baubles that miss the point entirely. And when I see someone wearing a green bowler with glittering plastic clovers, I remember my grandfather??s simple grey hat with fresh shamrocks in the hatband. Because it isn’t about the parade, it isn’t about the green clothes, and it certainly isn’t about the alcohol. It’s about proclaiming Erin Go Bragh?...