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...President himself had wanted it hard by Harvard Yard, and his widow and family intended to honor his wish. But Cambridge residents feared the completed project would attract too many of their countrymen to an already congested neighborhood. And so, after nearly twelve years of wrangling, the family gave up and looked elsewhere. Today, as it nears its official opening in October, the John F. Kennedy Library rises grandly from the edge of the Columbia Point Peninsula in Dorchester, six miles from Cambridge. Designed by I.M. Pei and Partners, the complex includes two theaters, a museum, an eight-story archive...
...Maniototo is not necessarily plain in New Zealand's centeral Otago; the region may exist only in the wonderfully deranged mind of novel's narrator, herself a chimera of identities. She is, at various stages, Violet Pansy Proudlock, a ventriloquist: Mavis Barwell, widow of a French teacher turned debt collector; and Alice Thumb, a novelist...
There was nothing extraordinary about Lili's camaraderie with the secret police. After all, Soviet society, including the literary salons, was riddled with spies, as Nadezhda Mandelstam, the widow of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, recalled in her magnificent memoir Hope Against Hope. Had Mayakovsky not tak en his own life, he would surely have fallen victim to such informers, as Mandelstam and hundreds of other writers did during the Great Purges of the late '30s. But who could be held accountable for his actions? asked Nadezhda Mandelstam. Her answer may apply to all the characters...
Fiedler's widow, Ellen Bottomley Fielder, and her children attended the service, as did friends and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) staff. "People from all walks of life, the Boston Symphony, the Pops, the trustees, all the symphony's stage employees, his chauffeur, and ushers were there," Dickson, assistant conductor, said yesterday...
...years after Lyndon Baines Johnson's death, Widow Lady Bird, 66, has decided to sell 2,353 acres that the 36th President bought to enlarge the ranch, now a national historic site, where he lies buried. "I'm trying to shave off as many obligations, duties and responsibilities as I can," explains the former First Lady. She will continue to enjoy the L.BJ. Ranch on the Pedernales River to which she first came as a bride in 1934. Still, the territory to be sold was added with "much love and thrill and happiness and adventure." In two great...