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...family behind in Brooklyn, he repaired to the country, built himself a cabin-studio (he was a great carpenter), settled down at a crude desk he had also fashioned and began writing. He had a first line for a new play in mind, and some thoughts about its tragic theme--a man selling his soul and eventually his life to the false values of materialist America. By the wee hours he had completed the first draft of the first act of the play that was eventually known as Death of a Salesman...
Jacob L. Bryant ’07, the director of this year’s forum, said last spring’s Crimson report on depression among students got him thinking that the campus would benefit from discussions about the theme of love...
Cambridge police officers blockaded the street for ten minutes while Zeta-Jones waved to the crowd of approximately 200 eager fans and received kisses from Ferrante and Gale Rosen. Pudding cast members—posed around the three—sang verses of the show’s theme song, “Terms of Frontierment...
...most comprehensive autobiography of the past quarter-century. His topics range from going blind at the age of four to his childhood in Lahore, an education at Oxford, working for the New Yorker, love affairs in India and America, and the trials of house building in Maine. The unifying theme is loss, and the recovery, in unexpected places, of part of what has been lost. Going from his blindness, Mehta adds other privations, such as his bad luck with lovers, to turn his life's story into an epic. Because its author has had a head start on other memoirists...
...Norsemen was suffering a similar fate thousands of miles to the north. They had audaciously established a settlement on Greenland's comparatively mild southern coast, but they too overextended their environment and paid the price. Among many other blunders, they shortsightedly depleted the local forests (deforestation is a major theme in Collapse), which left them without the wood they needed to smelt iron. Icelanders were stunned when Greenlanders sailed into port in ships held together with wooden pegs and baleen instead of nails...