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...appears, were hard up for money despite their splendiferous ways. The baroness had been living by candlelight in her Left Bank apartment, not for romantic reasons but because the power had been turned off for nonpayment. The baron had survived by serving as a house sitter for a rich Venezuelan woman on the Avenue Foch...
...former Mather House resident said. “This is a chance to learn from students and from Harvard overall.” Douglass too hopes to benefit tremendously from a semester at the Center. “I can already tell that this is such a rich environment,” she said. “And I’ve only been here one and a half days.” —Staff writer Alexandra C. Wood can be reached at awood@fas.harvard.edu...
Here at Harvard, I see a climate of hatred for country music enthusiasts. People here flock to the treasonous saccharine-pop of Belle and Sebastian and the narcoleptic groaning of Iron and Wine, without even considering Big and Rich or Brooks and Dunn, both venerable duos in their own right...
...nearly 2,000 years, the rich and fertile area of western Asia known as Armenia proved hospitable to man and beast, as well as to a remarkable civilization. Then in 1915 the Turks massacred more than a million Armenians, leaving their historic lands desolate and sending the survivors fleeing abroad. The splendidly illustrated The Armenians (Rizzoli; 288 pages; $75) aims to restore to view some of the beauty of this brutally wounded culture. Various Armenian and Italian scholars have contributed chapters on the arts, history, religion and literature...
John Randolph perfectly balances ferocity and fragility as the stubborn old socialist grandfather. Phyllis Newman must be likable, and is, as an aunt who was and is now guiltlessly rich. Philip Sterling has exactly the lost aura of a husband in search of something he cannot define and only recently realized he wanted...