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...oral postscript to his article, [Anderson] wondered whether the department--which, he said, Mr. Fish had built artificially by recruiting recognized, high-priced scholars--could sustain itself. "The direction of the department was Mr. Fish's direction," he said. "It's basically a department of hired guns." The recent announcement that the scholar Henry Louis Gates would leave the department for a better offer, he suggested, may be a sign of things to come...
...helps people believe the item is still in the "$20 range.") Pitches often run to several pages. (Says Kikoler: "The more you tell, the more you sell.") The message is often printed on toned paper because warm colors apparently evoke a warm response. And usually there is a postscript. Some writers claim that the P.S. gets more attention than the body of the pitch letter...
Writing the book was obviously a very redemptive act for Thernstrom, and she writes in a courageous voice. But it in the end, it is the tragedy that resonates. As the author writes in the Postscript, "[N]o one can write for another because no one's spirit is like another's. The loss is, as it was, irreparable...
...graves of Digit, Uncle Bert and Macho. "I could finally comprehend," she said, "that the gorilla individuals I had known and named over the years since 1967 might well become public figures, not on a rock-star scale, but renowned for their own worth, lamented for their loss." Postscript: Fossey is buried next to them...
LORI CARSON: SHELTER (Geffen). Sylvia Plath for the CD age. Carson is too insistently sensitive, but this is a debut record. Her ballad, Way of the Past, is a worthy postscript to a love affair; it might even be a route to a bright future...