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...sudden I realized that my friend was punching me on the arm and saying that he wanted to leave, to find shelter and warmth and something...
Finlayson chose to attend Harvard in part because its Mormon population is larger than those of the other Ivy League universities to which he applied. Beck reports that "the Harvard Mormons mean more and more to me all the time." His appreciation of the warmth and solace provided by his religion was heightened during this past summer, when he arrived in Tokyo, utterly without personal contacts, and the Japanese Mormon community found him an apartment and helped him to settle...
...small, clear hand, are the product of a Cornell philosophy major's search for systems and structures to support his musical vision. Although some of his music can seem as severe as his customary costume of unadorned white shirt and dark trousers, there is a deep warmth in his best works: Music for 18 Musicians (1976), one of Reich's longest (nearly an hour) and texturally richest pieces, infused with an uncharacteristic sense of brooding and menace; the Octet (1979), a sunny minimalist ode to joy; and Tehillim...
...most part Sy believes you create what you will, but he also believes one creates what others will for him. The stony face he wears now-the wary eyes resting on the bulging cheek bones, the rare smile that never shows wide enough for warmth-it was not always his look. In Elmira, he says, "I learned how to be hard and cold. I was neither before. I used to dislike fighting so much that if I ever did get into a fight with a kid, I couldn't even hit him in the face. That...
...season of his imagination. Author John Cheever, 70, was a celebrant of sunlight, of manicured suburban lawns and shaved ice swimming in gin. Not all of his fiction (five novels and more than 100 short stories) was set in the heat of the year, but his dominant landscape radiated warmth and possibilities. It was filled with earnest people blinking in the glare of sudden and temporary freedom, with winter a chilly reflex of conscience. Seaside houses stimulated the senses: "Lying in bed, you draw on your cigarette and the red glow lights an arm, a breast, and a thigh around...