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...says, "that intense light will not make it beautiful." This aphorism, reflecting the 19th century's core faith in progress and reason, could be the guiding premise behind Roger Martin du Gard's expansive novel, Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort. A memoir of the eponymous character, the novel is a testament to reflection and self-examination. Maumort, born in 1870 to an old landowning family in the Perche region of Northern France, strives to illuminate his past while his family estate serves as quarters for a Nazi regiment during the German occupation. Focusing the intense light of reason on the past...
...Dreyfus affair and the death of his father--are only alluded to. Had there been time enough, du Gard's work would have been a complete study of a man's life, an exhaustive critique of human limitation and liability. However, Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort is a testament to care. Du Gard took extreme pains to represent the times he wrote about. Trained as a historian, he filled his characterizations with verifiable facts, extensively researched the events he described, and carefully delved into the psyches of the pantheon of men and women he presents...
This year, as a testament to his pioneering work, Harvard was able to attract two sensational recruits--Mike Bookman from Toronto, Ont., and Alex Kowell from Pacific Palisades, Calif. Bookman, now the starting setter, remembers Pankau's influence during his recruiting visit last year...
...real testament to student power. Students really can make tangible changes," Joffe-Block said...
...field of inquiry expands to include the strange appeal of popular music: "When a song is a standard, it can reproduce itself from one of its constituent parts. If you recite the words you will hear the melody." Everett imagines a group called the Midrash Jazz Quartet performing Old Testament-style exegeses on such works as Me and My Shadow and Stardust...