Word: holt
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Cary B. Berkeley '93, Ming-Hui Fan '93, Elaine J. Goldenberg '93, Yen-Dong Ho '93, Amanda C. Holt '93, Junko Kaji '93, Judy C. Liu '93, Doris S. McDonald '93, Katherine E. O'Sullivan '93, Anna W. Poon '93, Gina M. Raimondo '93 and Katherine A. Tulenko '93 were selected on the basis of grade point average, recommendations and overall course work...
...novel that stops on page 36 for a brief treatise on tea is obviously not in a hurry. Neither are the protagonists of Bronze Mirror (Henry Holt; 337 pages; $19.95). The Yellow Emperor, who "discovered the wheel and the compass and such," the Silkweb Empress, responsible for "the delicate art of silkworm rearing," and their courtiers all flourish during the Song dynasty, circa 1135. Another invention is announced: the Emperor's minister has developed a set of symbols called writing. Now every royal tale can be recorded. The aristocrats begin a leisurely contest for the title of best storyteller...
Donald sees Gienapp as a worthy successor who will continue to teach the Civil War in the History Department. Gienapp was trained by Yale's Michael Holt, one of Donald's former students...
VICTORIES by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt; $19.95). Higgins' dictum, "Dialogue is character is plot," could be no better illustrated than in his latest political novel, about a congressional election in Vermont during the 1960s, when the voters and candidates square off over the Vietnam...
Conversations do that in Victories (Henry Holt; 298 pages; $19.95), Higgins' maliciously funny new novel, set not in his usual Massachusetts courthouse corridors but in hardscrabble Vermont farm country. A slippery statehouse politician named Ed Cobb tries to persuade Henry Briggs, a retired major- league relief pitcher, to run for Congress on the Democratic ticket. Briggs, a born-and-bred Vermonter and no fool, knows this is like taking a high dive into a damp dishrag. But they talk. And talk. And Briggs and his wife Lillian argue. And argue. She's an earache. When he was in baseball...