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...Nathaniel Borenstein Pittsburgh
...plate dinner that raised over $7000 for the school, Brandeis awarded its annual citation of "distinguished service to the community and the publishing industry" to Nathaniel Lehrman, a senior vice-president of Playboy, a Brandeis official said yesterday...
...Moll, 45, a tweedy graduate of Yale's Divinity School, has become a Dr. Fix-It for colleges that complain of sagging enrollment. As director of admissions for Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., Moll brought a slice of pizazz to the countrified, 186-year-old alma mater of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Moll persuaded Bowdoin to allow applicants to skip the College Board exams, an attention-getting move, and he issued a new college brochure splashed with photos of sunsets, lobster pots and the Maine seacoast. Results during Moll's eight years at Bowdoin, applications increased...
...Hawthorne home. In the course of their conversation, however, the author made one puzzling remark: "He was convinced Hawthorne had all his life concealed some great secret, which would, were it known, explain all the mysteries of his career." Melville, probably still harboring some resentment against the reserved Nathaniel, had his own reasons for making this assertion; yet his statement holds a certain grain of truth...
...most of us, Nathaniel Hawthorne remains an elusive figure, difficult to describe and even harder to understand. Intensely private and somewhat reclusive from his earliest years, Hawthorne concealed his own personality as successfully as many of the veiled characters in his stories. He is a difficult subject for any biographer, and Mellow deserves credit for his prodigious research; but after all that labor, the enigma of Hawthorne remains just as impenetrable...