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...first, planned for Nov. 6, is titled “The Harvard Core Curriculum: History and Practice” and will feature Gurney Professor of English Literature James Engell, Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria M. Tatar, Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez and Associate Dean of FAS David Pilbeam...
...chosen one was struck by violent delusions--the belief that she had telekinetic powers, that she could change the colors of objects at will--Torres decided it was time to take Nicole to the hospital. Emergency-room doctors took one look at the thrashing teenager, strapped her to a gurney and began administering sedatives. She spent two weeks in the hospital as the doctors monitored her shifting moods, adjusted her meds and talked to her and her parents about her descent into madness. Finally, she was released with a therapy plan and a cocktail of drugs. Six months later, doctors...
...heroes of these books aren't the cynical, world-weary salonistas of The Sun Also Rises. They're innocents abroad, naive Candides hungry for an education, spiritual or otherwise. Take the character named Gurney, protagonist of John Beckman's The Winter Zoo. Gurney abandons his pregnant girlfriend in an Iowa delivery room and flees to Cracow to join his cousin Jane. Jane turns out to be a Mephistophelean temptress of the first order, and she schools Gurney in the pleasures of the flesh, turning his stay in Cracow into an all-hours, all-you-can-eat buffet of food, booze...
While Harvard had always attracted good faculty, under Eliot, the University developed its first superstar departments—including the nation’s best philosophy and history departments, boasting William James, George Santayana, Charles Pierce and, in history, A.J. Gurney...
...Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature James Engell, Leverett House Master and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi ’68 and Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government Peter A. Hall all received the distinctions...