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...bestseller list. But the success of his year-and-a-half research, completed while Brands was a professor at the University of Texas, Austin, is not surprising given the country’s odd new obsession with history. Doing to literary culture what Britney Spears did for music, a penchant for biographies averaging over 400 pages has made American history a sexy, best-selling pop phenomenon...
...contrasts. The thrust of their work has both encompassed large public projects and smaller private housing developments. They have embraced both pedestrian and vehicular transport concerns and created spaces housing everything from a library’s hush to a stadium’s roar. They also have a penchant for layered flat planes that betray high, open air expanses. What unifies them all is an absorbing, vaguely structuralist style that manages to appear clean without being clinical...
There is an understated elegance to the writing that enriches the flow of the story. It is never overtly flashy, never sacrificing function for form. When describing a girl with a penchant for eccentric dress, for example, Hank comments that “she claims she’s Goth, but she just reminds me of a car wreck that you go by on the Interstate. No matter what you see, it’s impossible to turn your eyes away...
While her childhood daydreams may have stopped at the beginning of the alphabet, Mira’s meteoric rise has shown no signs of slowing down. Before bursting onto the Hollywood scene, her penchant for As got her all the way to Harvard, where she graduated magna cum laude in East Asian Studies. As the former Cabot House resident—she loved the Quad, by the way—lounges in a spacious conference room on the second floor of the luxurious Ritz Carlton Boston Common, she chats casually about her latest film, Triumph of Love, while reflecting...
...East Coasters: Since I arrived at Harvard, you have repeatedly attempted to replicate my enchanted homeland. Moving a Pacific Sunwear into Harvard Square was a cute gesture, considering it is only “sunny” here eight days a year. However, in your newly found penchant for active fault lines, you have dangerously blurred the distinction between the coasts. This earthquake was a seismic anomaly, yet you consider yourselves blooded veterans for having gone through the experience once. Let this be a warning to you, West Coast wannabees, if you went west as I have gone east...