Word: robert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Editor emeritus Robert J. Teply '99 said he believes it is difficult to found and maintain a new magazine in an academic environment rife with publications as diverse as The Lampoon...
...Robert E. Grenier, manager of the HSTO, is quick to explain that Harvard is not getting rich off calls...
...Juilliard School graduate who opted for musical comedy over grand opera, she has a tangy, beautifully focused soprano voice and an intensely evocative way with words. She could make a toothpaste jingle sound poignant--and the songs on Way Back to Paradise are anything but mindless tunes. Jason Robert Brown's Stars and the Moon tells the wry tale of a material girl who brushes off a series of poor but ardent suitors only to learn that yachts and champagne aren't everything; Ricky Ian Gordon's Dream Variations is a laconic, sweet-and-sour setting of the famous poem...
John Edgar Wideman subtitles his eighth novel, Two Cities (Houghton Mifflin; 242 pages; $24), "A Love Story," but his version of that familiar genre seems at times the antithesis of standard romance. Robert Jones, 50, meets Kassima, 35, at a dance club, and she eventually invites him back to her house. Good sex leads to good conversation and then to love, an emotion that fills Kassima with terror and dread. Within a recent span of 10 months, both of her teenage sons were killed by gang violence in her Pittsburgh neighborhood and their father died of aids he contracted...
...Mallory, an elderly eccentric who moved from Philadelphia late in his life to wander the streets taking photographs. Against her will, Kassima begins to care about her increasingly enfeebled housemate, another death in her life waiting to happen. If she can let Mr. Mallory matter to her, why not Robert Jones...