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...Harvard golf team--the last Crimson squad to win it all--is now a forgotten part of Harvard history. The Myopia Hunt Club, located in South Hamilton, Mass.--about 20 miles north of Boston--is still there, still gaining renown for the polo competitions it sponsors...
...been unofficially mentioned as a runner-up for nearly two decades. So when the Swedish Academy last week finally awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature to French Novelist Claude Simon, 72, the news seemed both , inevitable and a little outdated. Simon had a period of modest renown during the 1950s and early '60s. Along with Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Michel Butor, he became a chief exponent of the French nouveau roman, a form of fiction that rigorously questioned traditional narrative devices. Reality, so the Gallic logic went, is not easy to read. Simon has proved himself just...
...most senior member of the department, Porter Professor of Fine Arts James S. Ackerman, is considered the world's foremost authority on Renaissance architecture. His renown is matched by colleague Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts, whom National Gallery of Art Director Sydney Freedberg has called the foremost Rembrandt scholar in the world...
...Visual Arts: The views of the Carpenter Center as a piece of architecture vary widely. One legend even has it that it was built upside down. In 1961, when Harvard decided to build a home for the Visual and Environmental Studies department, they hired an architect of international renown, Le Corbusier: As a work by Le Corbusier, it does not stand out as a special building. But it is the only work by that architect in America, and as such it is a building of great historical interest...
...bank on this: Milos Forman will never make a movie called The Milos Forman Story. Though the plot is dramatic enough -- early renown in his native Czechoslovakia, exile in cultural limbo, the struggle of starting over in a new land with a new language -- the climax does not ring true. It is too improbable: a smash hit and Oscars galore for his second American film, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), more profits and honors with last year's Amadeus. Sorry, pal. Send the script to Sly Stallone...