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DIED. EVAN HUNTER, 78, author who, under the pen name Ed McBain, defined the genre of the gritty, graphic police procedural novel; of cancer of the larynx; in Weston, Conn. Under his real name, he wrote the acclaimed 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle and the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, but none approached the popularity of his 87th Precinct series, which, beginning with 1956's Cop Hater, followed the personal and professional lives of a team of utterly human cops solving brutal crimes and paved the way for countless crime writers and hit TV shows like Hill Street...
...late '20s, Adams had become a pivotal figure in the rescue of photography from the genteel posturing of pictorialism, with its perfumed moods and swampy prints. Like-minded photographers such as Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham joined him to found f/64, the now legendary group that promoted the principles of sharp focus and pure, powerful form. On sunrise camera treks through Death Valley or the Canyon de Chelly, he showed that stony facts could engender the deepest feelings...
...narrative continually reveals, Adams possessed a rare talent for winning the friendship of brilliant but difficult men and women, including Weston, Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe. Perhaps it was because he so seldom raised his voice. The memoir boils over only once, on the subject of the Reagan Administration's environmental policies, which spurred his worst fears about human predators nibbling at the land...
...show its commitment to the wider black community, ABHW also honored a local high school student, Jordan T. Clark, with a scholarship. In addition to getting involved with community projects, Clark acted through his multicultural club to improve race relations at the Cambridge School of Weston...
...oldest Jesuit university in the country, and Dunn said that a merger with Weston would “help to make Boston College the center of Catholic intellectual thought in the United States...