Word: houghtons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maisie K. Houghton '62, one of the donors, says she and her husband gave to Harvard because she considers it responsible for her education...
...Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry--a post he holds to this day--Knowles swiftly earned the professional respect of both his students and scientists worldwide...
...lights from the first-year dorms shine in the night--from the middle of the Yard, the lights could even be glistening candles, not halogen lamps. This is the image of Harvard that brought me here: a Harvard of un-bricked fireplaces, dusty books buried in Widener and Houghton Libraries and benches dedicated to alumnae in Radcliffe Yard. It is the image of Harvard that I glimpsed at wondrous moments during my first year here, one that sometimes comes back to me as I walk home from the Science Center after evening sections. In those moments, late at night...
Novels do not ordinarily dabble with too much exactitude in current events or upcoming headlines; fiction writers hope, after all, that their work will outlast the rapid stream of passing fancies. But Paul Theroux's Kowloon Tong (Houghton Mifflin; 243 pages; $23) arrives as a noteworthy exception to that rule. On June 30 Britain will end its long-term ownership and control of Hong Kong and hand over the colony to the People's Republic of China. Hot off the presses, Kowloon Tong offers Theroux's imaginative version of how some Hong Kong residents have fared--and will fare...
BOOKS . . . KOWLOON TONG: On June 30 Britain will end its long-term ownership and control of Hong Kong and hand over the colony to the People?s Republic of China. Hot off the presses, Paul Theroux?s ?Kowloon Tong? (Houghton Mifflin; 243 pages; $23) offers Theroux?s imaginative version of how some Hong Kong residents have fared -- and will fare -- in the face of such a monumental and imminent change, writes TIME Literary Critic Paul Gray. Neville Mullard, 43, lives with his widowed mother Betty in a Hong Kong house called, in honor of their native land, Albion Cottage...