Word: shadowed
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Edward Estlin Cummings ’15 once remarked that his childhood home in the shadow of Harvard was “as lively as you please without ever becoming public.” Now, thanks to meticulous reconstruction by biographer and poet Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, the details of Cummings’ multifaceted life are doing just that...
...Yeats is like a mountain range, lying on the horizon. He can’t be emulated; you just walk around under the shade,” he says. Yet in his own work, Heaney has helped bring a good deal of illumination to that immense shadow...
...lies, please" was Greene's injunction to his shadow, and Sherry seems to have heeded the challenge. Instead of lies, he gives us antic speculation, reductive lay psychology and endless chatty asides. Greene evaded his pursuers in part by always being on the move--directing a brewery, bombarding Bodley Head publishers with new discoveries, roaming the world ceaselessly and maintaining a private life that quickened and deepened his heartbreaking novels. At one point we find him writing hundreds of letters to his longtime mistress Catherine Walston, visiting another mistress in Stockholm and, while roaming from Martinique to Moscow, crafting...
...Shadow of No Towers
...freshman might have chosen a smaller venue in Harvard Stadium, but he’s come in at just the right time for the Crimson. An underrated defense made its presence felt against Northeastern, and Bryant will be integral in moving the Harvard defensive unit out from the shadow of the lethal Crimson offense...