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...most expert puzzle solvers are an odd, rare breed, and one to be cherished. For the aficionado, Wordplay performs a special service. It lends faces to revered names, the heroes of puzzleworld: constructors Payne and Reagle, Stanley Newman, Mel Rosen and Fred Piscop. (I wish I could have found '90s phenom Patrick Berry, to whom Maltby and Galli occasionally sublet their Atlantic cryptic page, and Henry Hook, the dark prince of cryptics and crossword editor of the Boston Globe...
...STAR, BUT SHE THINKS SHE IS As it turns out, Streep is a cross between den mother and class cutup. On the set of Prada, director David Frankel was talking with Stanley Tucci about a scene. "I said, 'It's like you've been nominated for an Oscar, and they open the envelope and you don't win, and the camera's right in your face,'" recalls Frankel. "And he said, 'I can do that.' And Meryl said, 'I can do that! I've done it 11 times!!' She's very playful about being Meryl Streep." Streep is the most...
...unpleasant, memory for me.”COMING BACK TO CAMBRIDGEAt the same time Wright filed her grievance with the EEOC, Skocpol learned that then-dean of the Faculty, Henry Rosovsky, would assemble an ad hoc committee to investigate her charge. The committee—made up of historian Stanley H. Hoffman, historian of science Barbara G. Rosenkrantz, and economist Hendrik S. Houthakker—found, in a 2-1 decision, that sexual discrimination influenced the department’s refusal to tenure Skocpol.In August 1981, when Skocpol had already taken a one-year position at the Princeton-affiliated Institute...
...newspaper every day.”Bingham hired the first full-time ombudsman in 1969, then instituted the first extensive conflict of interest policy in the country in 1972. “We were told never to accept anything free, even a cup of coffee,” says Stanley K. Macdonald, former projects editor at The Courier-Journal.“It became a kind of basis for the industry,” says Keith L. Runyon, editor of The Forum at The Courier-Journal. Later, The Courier-Journal housed the first full-time media critic, and the newspaper...
...DIED. Stanley Kunitz, 100, acclaimed poet whose stark language and metaphysical bent earned him a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and two terms as U.S. poet laureate; in New York City. He produced a dozen books over 75 years, culminating with last year's The Wild Braid, an homage to his lifelong passion of gardening. The longtime Columbia University professor hammered out dense, restrained gems on a manual typewriter, tackling both the personal (his father's suicide) and the universal (life, death, rebirth). "The deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once," he said...