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...student-run Committee uses its $100,000 IOP allocated annual budget to publish the quarterly Review and a newsletter of IOP events sponsor panel discussions bring visiting fellows of Harvard and provide stipends to students whose political activities merit reward...
Translators bring us more than literary treasures. They transmit technology and make it possible to conduct business and diplomacy between nations. It is a shame their efforts, talents and dedication bring them so little in the way of recognition and financial reward...
...gardens, glittering portraits and skies filled to the brim with sunlight. Dedicated readers will learn that Renoir's long life was not as serene and untroubled as the joy that shines from his canvases might suggest. That information is worth knowing, but examining these pictures is a greater reward...
JOHN CHEEVER, we are told, always loved to tell stories. As an adolescent in the prestigious Thayer Academy, his teacher used to reward the class for their good behavior by having John tell them a story. Later, he told his own children so many legends about his life that they seldom knew what to believe. The fact is, John Cheever glided effortlessly into a world of fiction and, according to his daughter, he sometimes stayed exclusively in his imaginary surroundings for months. Suicidal drinking bouts, long talks with his canine companions, and a career steeped in fictional fantasy tell...
...glass eyeballs thoughtfully provided by the Gestapo. Finally they declare him "in better than good health-You're an Aryan! You can become a German." When Stani declines the honor, they rule he must be hanged by a fellow Pole, who will receive three cigarettes as reward. Through all the meticulous absurdities of the Nazi bureaucracy, these Klutz-en-jammer Kids tiptoe like hippos in a chorus line...