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...This, of course, is not Keillor's way. His radio show is generally easy listening, but it exists for the moment when he intones, "It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon" and launches into one of his tallish stories, marked by a looping inventiveness and softly colored by a kind of deadpan compassion. I would not for a moment imply that he achieves in them a tragic sense of life, but they are certainly implicitly sympathetic to people whose reach exceeds their emotional grasp and often enough hypnotic in their telling. I'm not saying that a movie...
...What difference does it make if you get drunk inside or outside?...In Pamplona we have more bars than churches. And we are not short of churches.” Outside, Josefina would sometimes find out her patrons’ true identities from the dust-jackets of books. The quiet and relaxed, yet welcoming, atmosphere of Pamplona attracted writers of all ilks. “They would come in at 11 in the morning and leave at 10 at night, just reading and writing,” Josefina archly told us, “That?...
...Stone’s freshman seminar, Tiffany T. Niver ’08, says that “although he had done much and was so knowledgeable in his field, he always asked us our opinion.” She says that he was a “quiet leader” who motivated students by expressing genuine care and dedication.Stone also helped shape and develop the mission of the Leadership Institute at Harvard College, a young organization geared towards cultivating leadership and promoting networking and inspired by courses he taught, Niver says.Another member of “Phil?...
...very core of Lamont’s resources. Moreover, reports of the Lamont renovation committee suggest that the reference desk will move to the third-floor stacks. Where, then, will we put the students who study there? And how will the main reading room preserve any quiet...
...closest friend in the world.” “His brilliant employment of subversive weapons...did not always please the more sedate members of his profession, but it never failed to please the rest of us,” Schlesinger wrote. “In a quiet way, without fanfare, he helped more people and promoted more noble causes...than most people have ever known.” Bok described former professor, author and ambassador as “the paprika in our stew” at Harvard, “adding a truly distinctive and memorable quality...