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...defense of his book, Frey invoked the fundamentally subjective nature of the memoir. "It's an individual's perception," he said to King, "my recollection." And he's right. Any memoir is unavoidably filtered through the author's memory and feelings and the inherently impressionistic nature of any literary medium. But before we get lost in an epistemological fog, let's not forget that there's a difference between unavoidable distortions and willful deceptions. Some falsehoods come with the territory of the memoirist; others must be deliberately imported into it. That's a distinction that memoirist Mary Karr, author...
...Covarrubias has always been underestimated as an artist. Unlike his celebrated compatriots Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros, who painted public murals on a heroic scale, Covarrubias made his name in the humble medium of the caricature. He arrived in New York at age 18 (after dropping out of high school when he cracked a teacher's skull in a fit of anger), and found fame and a good living almost immediately with his witty, irreverent ink portraits for glossy magazines such as the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. By 1930, when he married Rosemonde Cowan, a popular Broadway dancer...
...distinction being made here that's worth scrutinizing. The "subjective retelling" defense invokes the double layer of distortion that's inevitable in any memoir: events are filtered through the author's memory, and then they're fuzzed even further by the inherently impressionistic nature of any literary medium. Short of the unexpected appearance of a Recording Angel, there isn't much a memoirist can do to pull aside that two-ply veil. But before we get lost in an epistemological fog, let's not forget that those distortions must be kept separate from the wilful deceptions of an author...
...wider College administration is reacting to Bakshi’s adventure with talk of re-tightening international travel policies. Until recently, the College enforced a policy that denied funding as well as study credit for students traveling to areas for which the State Department had issued medium-level travel warnings. Since this policy affected mostly undergraduates, a number of college students (400 of whom signed a petition) and student groups called for a review of the travel policy. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 obliged by forming an evaluative committee this fall, and restrictions...
...They realize they have to hold on to small- and medium-size-business classifieds. We're trying to take that market. On an evolutionary basis, things move from off-line to online. When the 50-year-old manager of the Brown Shoe Co. loses an employee, what does he do? He reaches for the phone to put an ad in the paper because that's what he's always done. What's his son going to do? Flip open his laptop. That's evolutionary. It's a gradual process. We're trying to make it revolutionary. I'm glad...