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...BOOK Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by Peter J. Conn "I read The Good Earth, like everybody else did, probably in high school, but there are a lot of things about her that I didn't know. For instance, she started Welcome House, which was one of the first adoption agencies that allowed Americans to adopt interracial children from all over the world...
...Well, as the Disney people said about Pearl Harbor, it's not a treatise, it's a movie. And as a movie, A.I. engrosses without quite enthralling. It's got technological wonders (the seamless integration of Teddy as a puppet and a computer image) that are truly wonderful. Scenes like the Flesh Fair and a chase through the woods display the supple camera work, dramatic lighting and savvy editing that you get when a terrific filmmaker is on his game. He isn't always, though. Intriguing plot twists (like the exploits of the nicely malicious Martin) are dropped for excursions...
...CURRENT FAVORITE BOOK 'Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography' by Peter J. Conn Pearl Buck was a very interesting writer. I read "The Good Earth," like everybody else did probably in high school, but there are a lot of things about her that I didn't know. For instance, she started an adoption agency called the Welcome House, which was one of the first agencies that allowed Americans to adopt interracial children from all over the world...
...share books with, like my mother-in-law and Lynne Cheney. She [Cheney] has sent me several books. In fact, the reason I read "Henry and Clara" is because she sent me Thomas Mallon's latest book, "Two Moons: A Novel." We also shared "The Girl With the Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier. That's a historical fiction about the artist Vermeer. That was one of the most recent, and I did like it a lot. Then I just saw the Vermeer show at the Metropolitan. It was fabulous. I also saw the one that was here [in Washington] about...
...complacent, if you let your inner critic overwhelm you, then Harvard can pummel you into submission, into bidding for conformity. But who comes into college saying “I want to be a gov jock!” or “I want to be a Pearl Girl!”? If you can take your lumps, if you can be motivated by the rejections, if you can just find a way to trust yourself, then this place will toughen your spirit. And in one of life’s delicious ironies, Harvard becomes the place to learn...