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...advantage of having Ph.Ds is that they'reused to doing analytical writing," says formerExpos teacher Laura Otis, herself a Ph.D incomparative literature. "I wonder about someonewho's a novelist teaching writing to people. Isthat going to help them on a history of philosophyessay...
Other celebrities in attendance at the bash, held at the Boston Public Library, included former Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, Senator Edward M. Kennedy `54-'56, novelist Robertson Davies and actress Angie Dickinson...
...could possibly replace such an institution? Various names were bruited in the rumor mill -- stage actors, a few Hollywood eminences, novelist John Updike. But the winner turned out to be a dark horse: Pulitzer-prizewinning memoirist and New York Times columnist Russell Baker, 68, who originally declined the offer by saying, "I don't want to be the man who succeeds Alistair Cooke. I want to be the man who succeeds the man who succeeds Alistair Cooke." Baker was won over by the zeal of Christopher Lydon, a newscaster at Boston's WGBH, the station that produces Masterpiece Theatre. Lydon...
Cover stories in Time and Fortune on the "Twentysomethings," a cover story in The Atlantic on "the thirteenth generation," and a Barbara Walters special, among others, all tried to make some sense out of what novelist Douglas Coupland called "the Shampoo Generation...
Happily, most of Horn's eccentric machines aren't so overblown as this. The image of sex-as-mechanism is one of the oldest tropes in modern art. A century has passed since Joris-Karl Huysmans, the "decadent" novelist, invited the reader to see the workings of an engine as "steel Romeos inside cast-iron Juliets"; the idea of a "desiring machine" has been explored by a lot of art since then, from early Picabia and Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), through the Surrealists in the '30s, and so down...