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What it possesses instead is the slow, hypnotic fascination of an enormous puzzle being assembled piece by piece. Perec makes his jigsaw methods quite explicit. One of the residents in the apartment house is a wealthy Englishman named Percival Bartlebooth, whose past, along with those of dozens of other tenants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jigsaws Life: a User's Manual | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

She went on to score several collegiate home-runs by winning the American Friends of the London School of Economics fellowship for a year of study at that institution, Radcliffe college's Mildred Percival Sherman fellowship, whose $2000 stipend she will use to defray costs at the London school, and...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: For She's a Jolly Good Fellow | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

If you look carefully, you'll see that a fair number of well-known figures who graduated from Harvard also graduated from the Signet--like Norman K. Mailer '43, George A. Plimpton '48, T.S. Eliot '10, and John H. Updike '54, Caspar W. Weinberger '38. Teddy Roosevelt Class of 1880...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: THE SIGNET SOCIETY | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Those who pick up this allusion to fanciful old tales may move to the head of the class. Lodge sets his swelling cast of characters into frantic motion across what only looks like the contemporary world; in truth, they move through enchanted old paths out of Ariosto, Spenser and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gypsy Scholars Small World | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Directed by Michael Percival

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Belleboys in Love | 2/23/1984 | See Source »

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