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...fame, his appearance suggests that he never fully evolved past his student years: with vintage clothing and designer glasses, caustic wit and deadpan delivery, one can still see an easy-going undergraduate somewhere within this 32-year...

Author: By Brian D. Goldstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Quiet Back-Row Student Returns as Acclaimed Author | 3/7/2003 | See Source »

...where Aaron taught at the time. Borges was “a very small man, very un-flamboyant,” he said, remembering also “the way he spoke in gestures” and how he possessed “a certain kind of dryness and wit...

Author: By Josiah P. Child, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jorge Luis Borges’ Works Find a Home at Harvard | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

Occasionally, when you least expect it, an underlying seriousness emerges from the flow of prose, but the same matter-of-fact voice is as capable of profundity as wit...

Author: By Lily X. Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Zadie Smith Tells of Success, Story-writing | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

...Minutes of classes at the Extension School cancelled due to the hellacious wrath of Mother Nature. 60: Minutes of Leo Damrosch’s undergraduate class, English 185: “Wit and Humor,” that were cancelled when Damrosch misread a sign that announced the cancellation of Extension School classes...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Minutes | 2/20/2003 | See Source »

Matt C. Lynch ’03, who found out his English 185, “Wit and Humor” lecture had been cancelled in an e-mail from Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch yesterday morning, spent the day with roommates whose classes were not cancelled...

Author: By David B. Rochelson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Snowstorm Sacks School | 2/19/2003 | See Source »

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