Word: martin
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After the federal government awarded the contract, Joseph B. Martin, dean of HMS, started a fund for projects in women's health...
...really. Actually, because of [producer Martin Bregman's] persistence of the fact that we were just fictionally telling a story about someone who really existed and [his] true-to-life experiences, everything you see in the movie happened, just names and places and sequences and realities, literally, have been altered. By no means would I want to try to do an imitation of Bo Dietl for the movie. So I was able to create for myself a lot of the character based on my vision. I spent a lot of time with Bo and talked to him about his life...
...Calvino preface is so nuanced that it toorequires an introduction, and Martin McLaughlin,who is responsible for the new translation, ablyprovides it. Calvino substantially re-edited thebook in 1954, toning down the Communism, misogynyand violence of his characters. (It is a littlemisleading to speak of the Communism, misogyny andviolence in this book because the tone of thestory is so far removed from the world of thoseadult concerns. Although Pin frequently describeswomen as "disgusting," this is, more than anythingelse, an eight-year old who thinks all girls havecooties.) Calvino declines to mention this re-editin his lengthy introduction, although McLaughlintoo generously...
Jerome L. Martin'01 said he attended the lecture because of his high esteem for Heaney's work in general...
...think he's pretty much one of the greatest living poets," Martin said. "In fact, he's one of the reasons I chose Harvard over other [colleges...