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Margaret's written apologia to her son forms one vivid strand of this intricately interwoven novel. She and Pinkham had flourished during the 1960s. It was a time of adolescent hope, particularly for people entering their 30s and 40s. She writes, "Your father, think of it, Bayard, was rebuilding slums. There was to be warmth and light, Shakespeare and the beat of African drums . . . Your mother wrapped in a slave's headcloth above a bastard dashiki. French champagne with grits. See the good of it before you laugh...
Unfortunately for Harvard, MIT couldn't find a new base to strand its runners on in the fifth...
...vision preceded style, and her works escape the provincial air that clings to some early American modernism ("Colonial Cubism," in Stuart Davis' mordant phrase). Her main stylistic affinities are less with other American or European painting than with photography: the work of Stieglitz, but especially of her friends Paul Strand and Edward Weston, obsessed with sharp focus, clear emblematic shapes of stone, bone and weathered root, the far telescoped into the near. Her America was a more stripped, fundamental and varied place than anything one can find in "regional" painting of the '30s. She made indelible images of the city...
Nguyen is on the Strand Fellowship, a program set up by a University School alum for students to pursue scientific research. Nguyen has chosen to work with a doctor investigating the neurochemistry of anti-psychotic drugs, concentrating particularly on a scary-sounding narcotic called tritiated spiroperidol...
Marcel Khalife and Al-Mayadeen Ensemble: benefit concert, Strand Theatre, 543 Columbia Rd, Dorchester, Saturday...