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...Norton...
...theme reappears unbidden in almost all conversations about Safire: his unusual capacity for nurturing intense friendships. "If I were in a desperate situation where I had only one phone call, it would be to Bill," says David Mahoney, the former chairman of Norton Simon. Similarly, Safire's literary agent Mort Janklow calls him a "great friend," someone he would trust to race to Bangkok in an emergency. Such sentiments sound saccharine, but Safire's friends tend to remember gifts he gave them 30 years ago. For Barbara Walters, who worked with him in p.r. in the late 1950s...
...Norton Publishing has announced a March release date for The University: An Owner's Manual, penned by Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky. Rosovsky, a veteran administrator who currently sits on the seven-member Harvard Corporation, served as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from...
...wonderful performance, but in the sour view of many scientists, it is largely flimflam. To them, Rifkin is a Luddite, whose opposition to DNA research is based on skewed science and misplaced mystical zeal. Geneticist Norton Zinder of New York City's Rockefeller University calls him a "fool" and a "demagogue." In a scathing 1984 review of Algeny, one of Rifkin's nine books, Harvard's Stephen Jay Gould wrote that it was "a cleverly constructed tract of anti-intellectual propaganda masquerading as scholarship . . . I don't think I have ever read a shoddier work...
...point, Ashbery compared Beddoes with the British poet John Clare, the subject of his first Norton lecture, saying that both poets vanished after their works were completed, and both died tragically after leading hard lives...