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...audience. He realizes he is considered aloof even by those who know him best, and admits, "I'm always having to tell myself, 'Get back into the conversation.'" When he does get off a good line, it is a throwaway, almost sotto voce, and rarely with a stranger. Director Mike Nichols, who staged four of Simon's plays, recalls attending one in which he had not been involved. Simon greeted him wearing a handsome coat. Says Nichols: "It was an off night. The play had problems, real problems. After the performance, Neil took my arm, walked me down the alley...
...also no stranger to presidential search committees, as he was the deputy chair of the committee that nominated Hennessy, then provost, in 2000. Hennessy later recommended Etchemendy, who was at the time chair of the Philosophy Department, to be his successor...
...kind of blossoming. Nature re-established itself. Saplings and wind-sown grasses sprouted in rail beds where the homeless built campfires at night. Whole stretches made you think of the Appian Way after the fall of the Roman Empire, the almost phosphorescent decrepitude of a vanished civilization made even stranger by the fact that an intact, modern city was churning away all around it. But in the '90s, as real estate values on the streets below started rising, developers began to clamor for the tracks to be demolished to make way for their perennial notion of utopia, which consists almost...
...cold austerity of modernism is no stranger to the design shops of New York City, but some boutiques have been blazing a new trend: diorama décor. Where hard lines and minimalism once ruled, there is now an artful clutter of quirkier furnishings, including natural objects suitable for a Victorian curio cabinet...
...money owed to loan sharks by a group of impoverished villagers struggling to survive; they should repay him, he said, "when they could." Eventually they did, but that was not the most significant aspect of the episode. While the total sum was only about $27, that a stranger would trust them with his cash gave the villagers an appreciation of their own self-worth. Today, that tiny pool of money has grown into an enormous reservoir of hope and dignity for millions of people the world over...