Word: musee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work, never allowing a single manuscript to leave their home without, as Dorris once put it, "consensus on every word." While some authors vary the dedications in their books, ticking off family and friends as the years go by, for Erdrich and Dorris, it seemed, there was only one Muse--the other. "To Michael, Complice in every word, essential as air," Erdrich wrote at the front of her best-selling The Beet Queen. "For Louise, Companion through every page, through every day. Compeer," read the dedication in Dorris' A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. In 1991 they even collaborated...
This year's series is titled "The Burden of Memory and the Muse of Remission." It is co-sponsored by the Department of Afro-American Studies, the Du Bois Institute on Afro-American Research, and Oxford University Press...
...substantive part of a Harvard student's career, by endowing chairs and reducing section sizes, and second, to the more intangible element of our University experience, by helping to rebuild the tower. Because a Harvard education often begins when a student looks up from studying in one building to muse on the ornament and scale of another. Then, on the brink of the next century, Harvard can boast it has restored, finally and completely, a building from the last century. As Bunting wrote in his 1985 history, "When the tower roof, clock, and cresting have been replaced, Memorial Hall...
Last week a three-way deal created the largest radio-only company in the country: Chancellor Media Corp. The new outfit combines Evergreen Media Corp. and Chancellor Broadcasting Co., which is controlled by investment firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst and is valued at about $1.5 billion. The company will then buy 10 stations from media giant Viacom for $1.075 billion...
...after a decade, Glaser quit, a millionaire yearning for his activist past. "I wanted to put up my periscope and regain some perspective on the world," he says. You see, if Gates was Glaser's business role model, Cesar Chavez was his muse. A grape boycotter from way back, Glaser wrote a college-newspaper column called "What's Left" and has always been passionate about bottom-up grass-roots movements. Money, as far as Glaser is concerned, can be damned. "I'm not interested in the purely economic end of this anymore than Pavarotti is interested in getting paid...