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...Such a portrait of the Harvard community may be more of an ideal than a reality, for Harvard undoubtedly means many different things to many of its students. And while Harvard's essence may lie in the expression of its ideals, for some, and perhaps for too many, the Harvard degree is an instrument to a paycheck...
...Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism (Houghton Mifflin; 445 pages; $27.95). The authors have given us a clear-eyed account of what happened to these luminaries as well as to broadcast journalism in the decades after World War II, in the process drawing a vivid portrait of idealists who believed that "a journalist should be the champion of the underdog," but who were also "intensely ambitious young men who yearned for admission to [the best] clubs and salons..." Cloud and Olson not only recount the broken friendships and broken illusions that saddened the later years...
...author A.A. Milne is that through a combination of obliviousness and neglect, he saddled his only son Christopher with a perfectly awful childhood--a fact that rocked the world in 1974 when Christopher Milne's memoir The Enchanted Places first appeared. In it, the "real" Christopher Robin painted the portrait of a father who was cold and remote, with whom thrice daily visits were a matter of pro forma routine. He also revealed his youthful anguish and embarrassment over a notoriety he was never able to escape...
...adapted the text from the 1891 original, premiere next week at the Opera de Monte-Carlo in Monaco. (Princess Caroline, president of the Monaco Spring Arts Festival, encouraged Liebermann's work, and the piece is dedicated to her.) The composer does sense an affinity, in part, with Wilde's portrait of misbehavior: "I don't feel in a way that I've created any of my pieces. They sort of take on lives of their own." MICHELLE CHALFOUN, 29; Manhattan, Novelist The movie rights to Chalfoun's first novel, Roustabout, have already been optioned by actress Winona Ryder. The novel...
...with a specific focus and we go out with it having been narrowed. No time to know there is an upcoming presidential election. No time to "Take Back the River." No time to take advantage of Arts First. No time to be the person in that well-rounded portrait we painted on our application...