Word: houghtons
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...Make an appointment to view some rare books at Houghton Library. (Shakespeare's folios, the writings of William James, class of 1864, the letters of Robert Gould Shaw, class of 1860. When will you ever have access to these again...
DIED. ROBERT A. HOUGHTON, 84, dogged former Los Angeles assistant police chief who led swift and successful investigations into two of the city's most notorious crimes, the assassination of Robert Kennedy and the Manson family murders; in Los Angeles...
...American Pastoral (Houghton Mifflin) The title is ironic--a Philip Roth specialty. There is precious little rural peace and harmony in this scorching novel about a prosperous New Jersey couple whose good life is destroyed when their daughter becomes a '60s terrorist. In Roth's earlier novels, parents tended toward the comic and repressive. Not here. The author renders the Job-like suffering of a father and mother over a lost child with characteristic emotional force and verbal energy...
Also on the committee are Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck '76, Warren Professor of the History of Religion William R. Hutchison, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of the Philosophy of Religion Cornel R. West '74 and Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change Preston N. Williams...
...view here is, forget that asterisk. With the publication of The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness (Houghton Mifflin; 190 pages; $23), a collection of novellas about men and women in nature, there should be no more avoiding plain truth: Rick Bass is a very good writer of fiction. What's more, he's good at a kind of writing that is often done with irritating self-consciousness. Bringing the natural world into a story as something more than scenery invites a rich array of overdelicate word-painting and drum-roll weather effects, with turning seasons or the death and birth...