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...areas (which surround Holy Trinity), yet their influence extends far beyond Sunday morning services and the physical limits placed upon their structures. Likewise, the tiny Swedenborg Chapel on the corner of Kirkland and Quincy streets and its founder have influenced the Harvard community. Henry James, Sr. 'was an avid reader of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, the Swedish theologian who was the inspiration for the Church of the New Jerusalem. Henry in turn influenced his eldest son William, the philosopher and psychologist for whom our William James Hall is named. Just up Quincy Street a few blocks from the Chapel...
This is my last column as The Crimson's Reader Representative. I'd like to thank all the readers who have given me their comments, criticisms and input on The Crimson's coverage, and encourage everyone to continue to bring your issues to the 1998 Reader Representative...
...police," begins Martin Amis' novel Night Train (Harmony; 175 pages; $20). "I am a police and my name is Detective Mike Hoolihan. And I am a woman, also." And with that satisfying jolt, we're off, as Amis once again bombards, delights, excites and irritates the reader with his hard-edged writing and warped spirit. Paying homage to the American tough-guy novelists of yore--Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler--Night Train pushes the boundaries of noir almost to the edge of darkness. The experiment does not always work, but this little book never gets boring...
...Japanese reader Sachiko Himeno wrote to TIME describing how, in order to spare the environment, she lived in a machine-free world, washing her laundry by hand and doing without a TV, air conditioner, stereo and vacuum cleaner [LETTERS, Jan. 19]. By contrast, I am surrounded by the machines that help destroy our environment. But as a single parent living with a seven-year-old son in a one-room apartment, I find that appliances help me a lot. I am a nurse who works long hours. I don't have time to do my laundry by hand. I prepare...
...course, most true love occurs well outside of the nation's capital. So, CP's valentine to you, dear reader is this spud's intimate compilation of love tales -- sweet and violent, sick and saccharine, doomed and otherwise...