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...fitting that the heroine of the author's fine, quietly melancholy second book, Naked Sleeper (HarperCollins; 235 pages; $23), should share her predecessor's vocation, for she too seems compelled to intensify her sense of disconnect. Though Nona never leaves her native Manhattan, she teaches English to lonely foreigners who, just like her, are lost souls in a land of plenty. Abandoned as a child by her father, Nona at middle age finds herself in what is for her an uncomfortable place: a safe, happy marriage to a man who probably won't leave. Like a girl in a beautiful...
Save for occasional tedious digressions--four whole paragraphs on Nona's yoga breathing--Nunez limns Nona's search for self with some impressively elegant writing, which gives this book its true appeal. Of the love letters Nona receives, Nunez writes, "They were carried away not by love but by the vocabulary of love, the adjectives and verbs of love, one smooth golden word following another, like honey dripping from a spoon." For the most part, Nunez's prose flows just as fluidly...
Student affairs committee members Andrew J. Ehrlich '96 and Denise A. Ebery '95 negotiated with Science Center Director Nona D. Strauss to extend the sourcebook stockroom's hours for the first two weeks of second semester. In exchange, the council will provide $100 worth of publicity for the new schedule...
...Science Center, which opened just as the first energy crunch hit, has been trying to improve energy efficiency for its entire operating life, says Nona D. Strauss, director of the Science Center...
Science Center Director Nona D. Strauss said yesterday that the doors were removed in 1985 at the request of the Harvard Police Department after an "intolerable 15-year period of sexual harassment...