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...their wanderings. But modern practitioners - Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux, Pico Iyer - have helped elevate travel writing, if not to a science, then at least to an art that values truth. No one has mastered that task more deftly than Jan Morris, 79, the England-born, thoroughly Welsh writer and historian. In more than 40 books and countless essays over the past half-century, she has marshaled reportorial insight and literary flair to describe nearly every interesting place on the planet. Unique among them is Hav, the microscopic, Levantine city-state she first put on the map 21 years ago with...
...author of books such as “Michelangelo’s Last Paintings” (1975) and “The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion” (1983), Steinberg became the first art historian to receive the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters...
...small luncheon for Harvard alumni at the posh ArabellaSheraton Hotel Seehof in Davos, Summers’ respite from University politics came crashing to an end. At 9:35 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 27, The Crimson reported on its website that FAS Dean William C. Kirby, the historian of China who had led Harvard’s flagship school for just four years, would step down from his post under pressure from Summers. Citing anonymous sources, The Crimson’s report drove Kirby to officially announce his resignation nearly a week before he had planned...
...Many observers say that the events of this past February, when University President Lawrence H. Summers decided to resign, suggest that the Board is still little more than a “rubber stamp,” in the words of Harvard historian Andrew B. Schlesinger ’70. Six days after Summers says he chose to step down, and just hours before his resignation was made public, several overseers said they had yet to be informed about the change at Mass. Hall...
...BISMOL’Roberts arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1973, and, by all accounts, he had already adopted the firm, but not staunch, conservative beliefs that have defined his legal career.Friends and roommates of Indiana-bred Roberts remember that the Straus Hall freshman aspired to be a historian. After moving to Leverett House, Roberts graduated summa cum laude in three years and chose to go on to the Law School instead of the history PhD program.Last summer, when Roberts was nominated to the Court, Robert N. Bush ’77, who was Roberts’ roommate...