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...Laird, who started the book while a visiting fellow here at Harvard in 2003, has a talent for rendering the indirectness of personal relationships and interactions, but his skills are better reserved for poetry where silence and reticence work in tandem with a writer’s style. In “Utterly Monkey,” these awkward but poignant episodes are overwhelmed by the preposterous plot. For more than just the facts, try Laird’s first volume of poems “To a Fault,” or, better still, try his wife Zadie Smith?...
Such a statement intentionally blurs the line between truth and bravado. Hannah's speakers, Southerners almost to the man, habitually treat language as action, words as deeds. Roger Laird, the hero of Getting Ready, worries over his many and expensive failures to catch "a significant fish." Finally, some 30 miles south of Panama City, he manages to haul in a sand shark from the surf. Though it lacks the grandeur he had imagined, this experience proves exhilarating enough to lead him to his life's next great task. He moves to Dallas, builds a pair of 8-ft. stilts...
...game's winter Elysium, but even there the fabled fields of the Royal Palm have been joined in the past seven years by two less stodgy polo clubs. In fact, the exclusivity of the game appears to have completely escaped some of polo's newer converts. Says Dick Laird, 34, an investment banker from Washington who took up the sport two years ago: "My friends think we're out here with Rolls-Royces in the parking lot, but it's closer to rodeo. When you get right down to it, what's so elite about being knee-deep in horse...
...meeting was led by Professor of International Health Jennifer Leaning ’68 and Professor of Biostatistics Nan M. Laird...
...Jeffrey G. Williamson, Laird Bell Professor of Economics...