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...study of five 19th century couples. The title, Parallel Lives, has two meanings: the disparate views of marriage held by husband and wife, and the juxtaposition of twittering romantic expectations and tragic neuroses. Reading Rose's work is like turning a valentine to find graffiti underneath: not a pleasant experience, but a compelling one. The couples could not have been better chosen. Each contains one famous waiter: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens and George Eliot, nee Marian Evans. Three of the unions were devoid of passion, one degenerated into widely publicized scandal, and the sole...
...fastest sculler in the United States is a low-key guy. "There's something about messing around in boats that I find pleasant." Tiff Wood '75 says simply about the sport to which he has dedicated the last 16 years of his life...
...result is one of the most pleasant public gathering areas in a city that is full of them. What is new at the P.O., says the Pavilion's architect, Benjamin Thompson, who also designed Faneuil Hall's Festival Markets, is the freedom of choice. Says he: "We want you to have inexpensive food or expensive food; you can sit down or stand up, go upstairs or down. We want you to feel free...
Scoreless ties in succer come about at often as pleasant trips to Cornell...
...pleasant change to come here--people are interested in many things other than politics," Teeley says from his office at the Kennedy School of Government over looking John F. Kennedy St. But he adds it is not politics he grows tired of--otherwise the campaign trail would have long ago lost its appeal--but rather it is the "peer politics" among his colleagues at the White House and those on Capitol Hill from which he welcomes a change. In this sense he says, "Washington L.C. is not the real world--Harvard...