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...novel “Beasts of No Nation” was also published in 2005. The London Times called Iweala “a confident and promising new voice” and the San Francisco Chronicle lauded “Beasts” as a “stark, vivid book.” While Krinsky writes about naked parties and men who shave their pubic hair, Iweala’s novel tackles where war and cruelty intersect and the way that people can be corrupted by circumstances. Enough said. Of course Harvard and Yale have produced comparably great novelists...
Both Kaufer and Weinberg said they were astounded when they read “The Naked and the Dead,” Mailer’s first novel, a vivid depiction of war based on Mailer’s experience as a soldier in the Pacific in World...
...most vivid memory that fellow roommate Richard L. Weinberg ’43 had of Mailer was his A-plus on a novelette in English A, the 1939 version of Expos. Weinberg, 85, said he didn’t remember what the piece was about...
...addition to becoming easily searchable, digitized libraries are becoming much more readily available. Houghton Library, Harvard’s holder of rare books and manuscripts, is in the process of digitizing selected pieces from its catalog. Medieval manuscripts and digitized papyri can already be found in striking clarity and vivid color online. The digital images may even show more than the naked eye can see; a viewer can enlarge and zoom in on these images to reveal intricate details that might otherwise go unnoticed by the untrained eye. Some works whose delicacy makes their availability severely limited, like the herbarium...
...make a big difference. Things like setting up a special area where Marines could stay close to their injured comrades and receive frequent updates on their medical condition. Or washing the blood from vehicles used to transport the wounded so that their buddies would be spared the gruesomely vivid reminder of the attack that felled their colleagues. "The more intense it got with combat casualties coming through the door, the calmer Maureen became. I think the Marines really appreciated that," says Lieut. (j.g.) Joelle Annondano, a physician's assistant who served in Iraq with Pennington. "But she was also like...