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...unimportance of people to the author of it. The pages are littered with names (Kingsley Amis drinking in London's Fleet Street, or Aldous Huxley watching Gandhi make a speech in India, or Naipaul discussing the Greek playwright Menander with former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan) but names are all that most of them remain - two-dimensional also-rans in Naipaul's literary one-upmanship. The laughing, exuberant and fleshed-out characters that were such a feature of his earlier work have got up from the table, it seems, leaving the old curmudgeon talking to himself...
...country's most prolifically failed presidential candidate, Harold Stassen, ran nine times, and in many of those elections he wore a toupee so alarming that the Washington Post thought it resembled a "sullen possum that had been dipped in bronze...
...relations between adherents of the two traditions,” Syed said. “Graham, by signing this document, has really placed the Harvard community in a new light, as his act symbolizes that Harvard encourages understanding and cooperation between different faith traditions.” According to Harold W. Attridge, dean of the Yale Divinity School, there have been conversations about a possible conference of religious leaders and educators to follow up on the Muslim statement and the response. At Harvard, Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies Francis S. Fiorenza—who signed the statement?...
Michael Caine, Jude Law, Kenneth Branagh, and Harold Pinter: four men with 2 Oscars, 12 Oscar nominations, and a Nobel Prize for literature between them. Throw in a story that won a Tony when it was a play and won critical accolades when it was first adapted for film in 1972, and this remake of Anthony Shaffer’s “Sleuth” ought to be an instant success...
Shaffer drafted the original screenplay for the 1972 film. This time around, famed playwright Harold Pinter has taken the reins and added his own touch. Pinter offers a modern take on the story, revitalizing the decades-old tale for today’s audiences...