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With funding from the federal Institute of Museum Library Services, Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation is working to restore both the paintings and sculptures of the library’s “Sargent Hall.” The work, which presents a history of Western religion, is expected to take 18 months to restore...
Sargent Hall has sculptures extending up to 12 inches off of the canvas, and Sargent used glass, wood, metal and a variety of paints in creating the murals. Still, the workers say it’s worth the effort. “The Straus Center would bring this passion and enthusiasm to any project, but with this project, you are there where [Sargent] stood,” said Maurer. “That is exciting...
Leverett and Mather garnered the most pledges among the Houses. Mather House had a 45 percent participation rate, securing 187 pledges. Leverett gathered 197 pledges for a 44 percent participation rate. Straus gathered the most among the first-year dorms with 49 pledges for a 51 percent participation rate...
During the worst of his falling out last year with Oprah Winfrey, it was hard to tell that Jonathan Franzen is one of the most nuanced minds at work in the dwindling republic of letters. It's easy to tell that from How to Be Alone (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 278 pages), a collection of lucid, saturnine essays that have appeared in various magazines since 1994. Franzen is not the first serious writer to mourn the slow death of serious reading or to be worried about the decay of the moral imagination, each a continuing subtheme in a book that lights...
...Confederate General George Edward Pickett slipped away from his post at a vital crossroads in Virginia because a fellow officer had caught several shad for lunch. Thus was the Battle of Five Forks lost, and the course of the Civil War irrevocably altered. If The Founding Fish (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 358 pages) is any indication, had John McPhee been in command at Five Forks, he might have behaved likewise...