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This point was driven home to me during my sophomore year at Harvard, when a boy broke up with me by giving me a book of Jonathan Franzen essays called “How to be Alone.” Leaving aside the stereotypically Harvard gesture of giving a girl a book to let her down gently, there was something deeply offensive at the time about the assumption that I would be so devastated about our break-up that I would need to learn how to be alone. Yet despite the irrelevance of essays on dying fathers and big tobacco...
...said for required solitude, for time away from Facebook and final clubs, alone in a basement, listening to screeching saxophones and melancholy chords. So here I sit, playing jazz and talking to no one (no one I can see anyway). And while it may not be the exactly what Jonathan Franzen was thinking of, I can safely say that I now know how to be alone...
...mountain, and you have to jump over a crevasse, and it’s dangerous and you’re nervous.” For Clayton and crew to fulfill their promise, jumping that crevasse will have to become par for the course. —Staff writer Jonathan B. Steinman can be reached at steinman@fas.harvard.edu...
...colleague Jonathan Mirsky described Bogert as fearless when they covered the Tiananmen Square protests together...
Thinking back to his undergraduate years, Jonathan Kozol ’58 said he could not remember a single Harvard senior who planned to teach in the public schools...