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...Alexis de Tocqueville --Holden Caulfield --Robert Frost --Gandhi --Seneca --J.F.K./R.F.K. --Yogi Berra --Thoreau...
...novels have succeeded in capturing the essence of adolescence, but the likes of Tom Sawyer and Holden Caulfield are about to welcome the newest member to their ranks—a 13-year-old boy named Hank...
Faculty, students and alumni met in Holden Chapel on May 6, 1875, to end the color war once and for all. Though the group was temporarily deadlocked between magenta and crimson, The Magenta reported that the tide of public opinion turned after a speech by “the man who caused all the trouble.” The unnamed speaker said that a decade earlier he had bought magenta handkerchiefs for the crew team only because of a lack of the crimson variety. He “completely silenced the skeptics,” The Magenta reported. A large...
...guns; in the end his most effective weapon is a pizza. In Number9Dream (Random House; 400 pages), David Mitchell returns to a setting from his widely acclaimed 1999 debut, Ghostwritten: a dystopian and dysfunctional Japan, one-part William Gibson, two-parts Murakami-Ryu and Haruki. Like a cyberage Holden Caulfield, 19-year-old, fresh-from-the-countryside Miyake plods his way through Tokyo's cityscape, rubbing elbows with Uber-hackers, war veterans, playboys and yakuza-cum-spiritualists. Along the way he gets lost, kidnapped, chased, stoned, hired and falls in love. The pizza delivers him to his father-but, without...
Knowles is no Scrooge. Under his tenure, FAS has spent money left and right, and on improvements that really affect students’ quality of life, too. The renovated Harvard Hall, Holden Chapel and Boylston Hall provide gleaming classroom space, and a $22 million, 32,000 square foot addition to the Science Center will get underway this summer. The most powerful man at Harvard has even agreed to renovate the dilapidated Hasty Pudding Building (a project now expected to cost well over $10 million) and ruminated to the Faculty about converting the Inn at Harvard into academic space. And then...