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...exhibition is by the Harvard Theatre Collection, administratively a part of Houghton Library. The Theatre Collection has a comparatively short history, as it was established in 1901. Unfortunately, that history intrudes into the exhibition in a rather jarring way. One of the two rooms that, in addition to the hallway, constitute the Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery is dominated by two large oil portraits, one of Robert Gould Shaw by Edmund Charles Jarbell and one of Edward Brewster Sheldon by Paul Trabilcock. With two bare walls and the doorway flanked by commemorative oil colors, it is difficult to pay attention...
...stood by the “Corporation” sign, Harvard Corporation member James R. Houghton ’58 pointed to the clear blue sky and described the day as a “typical Harvard” affair. “This is a great day—for a great new president,” he said...
...flips over "Esther Stories" by Peter Orner (Houghton Mifflin/Mariner; paper; November 2), giving it a starred review. "Innovative, original and fresh as a breath of perfumed summer air, these 34 stories capture pure emotion so vividly they tremble with contained life...This extraordinarily fine collection should establish Orner as a new star of American short fiction." Author tour...
...people will need books more than ever. It will take writers to make sense of all this." - Wendy Strothman, publisher of Houghton Mifflin, to Publishers Weekly...
Sometimes events are unexpectedly successful. A panel discussion sponsored by the Harvard Book Store upon the release of the Houghton Mifflin American Heritage Dictionary was one such event. The panel, which consisted of Steven Pinker, Wendy Kaminer and Robert Pinsky, provided a very lively discussion about words, their meanings and their usage. In a previous reading, Mark Doty, a slight-looking poet who will finish the season for the Grolier Poetry Shop, transformed himself strikingly by throwing himself into the poem, but without the shouting or posturing that might spring to mind when one thinks of poetry readings...