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...Updike ’54 managed to publish in the magazine at an earlier age.Rich and Updike are, not incidentally, both former presidents of the Harvard Lampoon. (Crimson form, tradition, and a tinge of institutional jealousy demand that I now describe the ’Poon as a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine.) And, yes, Rich is the younger son of vaunted New York Times columnist Frank Rich ’71. That could generate some publicity for the book, but Gawker and others will make better sense...
...German occupation in World War II and a bleak examination of the often morally dubious activities of the underground. Not all of the Germans are brutes; many of the oppressed are betrayers of their cause. It may be the most honest - and certainly the most exciting - movie about the secret war ever made. It also represents a comeback for Verhoeven, who left his native Holland in the mid-1980s for Hollywood, where he made big budget sci-fi movies like Starship Troopers and sexually controversial pictures like Basic Instinct, before the resounding failure of Showgirls nearly drove...
Since last month, the front of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, has been surrounded by a covered chain link fence, prompting some students to speculate on the organization’s latest endeavor...
When Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond Dobard explored in their book Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad (Random House) a family legend that said messages encoded in quilts helped slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad, they had no idea that their hypothesis would inspire rancor from scholars who declared it false. They also couldn't have predicted how their story, published less than 10 years ago, would capture the popular imagination - being treated as fact on The Oprah Winfrey Show, in museum exhibits, in children's textbooks...
...course, it’s little secret that Obama’s campaign wants to draw parallels beyond mere flowery speech. Kennedy was seen as a fresh face; anti-establishment, youthful, full of “vigah” and hope, he represented a new wave in Democratic politics (including the civil rights movement). Obama’s desired image happens to be that of a fresh face; anti-establishment, youthful, full of vigor and “audacious” hope, he represents a new wave in Democratic politics...