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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gilford is ideally cast; he appears to have been drawn by Maurice Sendak for the occasion, and he can suggest an entire shtetl with a shrug. But, save for the narrator (Joe Silver), he is supported by performers who believe that Yiddishkeit is suggested by saying already every two minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pushcart Show | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

Clare was like "a very understanding nun" to the "tongue-tied Oscar Wilde," as Sheed remembers himself. On one occasion the understanding nun reclined uneventfully on the Sheed bed. When the summer came to an end, she gave her young friend a new Oldsmobile.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Woman of Serial Lives | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

There are plenty more, and Bellow again demonstrates his keen sense of how all these disparate people are thrown, indeed, bonded together over huge distances and years. Even in this his "dark" book. Bellow shows a strong instinct for seeking out and lauding the crumbs of humanity he finds in...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Bellow and the Burden of His Past | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

Gerald Hilton. Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Science, who delivered the Jefferson Lecture last year, called Vermule "a splendid choice" and described the lecture as "a rather grand occasion by the standards of an academic."

Author: By David M. Rosenfeld, | Title: Classics Professor Vermeule To Deliver Jefferson Lecture | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

May Day, two days after Exhibition Day, was a momentous day for the Class of 1823 and an outstanding occasion in the annals of Harvard history. On this morning, the College government called up Robinson, charged him with being the primary cause of the Exhibition Day disturbances, and dismissed him...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: The Great Rebellion of 1823 | 2/17/1982 | See Source »

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