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Cosby was ahead of his time. There's a bit of a boom in biblical fiction these days: Jacob's four wives got the novelistic treatment in Anita Diamant's The Red Tent, and this spring brought us Rebecca Kohn's The Gilded Chamber, starring Esther, and Marek Halter's Sarah, which gamely fills in that figure's early life and makes a passionate love story of her marriage to Abraham. Like Cosby's routine, these books all come with a pleasantly blasphemous tingle. Do they dare improve on the Bible? What do they give us that the Good Book...
According to Janet L. Heywood, vice president of interpretative programs at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Shattuck was a “good friend” of Jacob Bigelow, Class of 1806, who was a major player in the design and establishment of the cemetery and a Harvard science professor...
...could be a difficult man. "As inhuman as glass" is how he was once recalled by his friend Max Jacob, the gay French poet and Jewish convert to Catholicism who also insinuated himself for a time deeply into the life of Picasso: "Everything in [him] tended toward purity in art. His insupportable pride, his black ingratitude, his haughtiness." But Modigliani sprang after all from a proud and unconventional family. He was born in the Tuscan port town of Livorno, a cosmopolitan city where Jews had lived freely since the Renaissance. Educated and progressive--his mother shocked her in-laws...
Ophthalmologist Jacob Wayne Streilein passed away two weeks ago at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center after a brief illness...
After jumping out to 3-0 and 4-1 leads in the first half, Harvard found itself tied with the Stags when Jacob Olson’s goal knotted the score at 5-5. It appeared that the early Crimson momentum...