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...Perfect Fifths” becomes a meta-fiction, and even its narrative point of view serves the themes of memory and revision. If it is chick-lit, it stretches the genre’s limits, keeping the best of its readability and trading fluff for wit.—Staff writer Chelsea L. Shover can be reached at clshover@fas.harvard.edu...
...chancellor emeritus of Cold Spring Harbor Lab was one of TIME's People of the Century Thomas Jefferson said, "The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man." When reading a column by Frank Rich, we suspect that Jefferson was right. With peerless intellectual clarity and wit, Rich holds our leaders to a higher standard than the one at which they too often settle...
...Modern Self” that I think began 12 or 13 years ago, and it’s been fine-tuned fairly well. I’m going to teach it again this summer at the Venice Summer Harvard Program. The other one is called “Wit and Humor.” It’s a kind of an eccentric course. It’s a subject that is totally neglected in my field, where it’s regarded as recreational. If people do talk about comedy its in a very high-minded way. This...
...surprising how easily Austen's novel succumbs to the conventions of a zombie flick. Much of Austen's work is about using wit and charm and good manners to avoid talking about ugly realities like sex and money. In Grahame-Smith's version, zombies are just another one of those ugly realities. "What was so fun about the book is the politeness of it all," says Grahame-Smith, who's a freelance writer in Los Angeles. "They don't even like to say the word zombie, even though their country is besieged by zombies. They're everywhere, and people...
...expert at go, or Japanese chess, a player needs patience, strategy and a sharp wit, which devotees to the game hone into a personal style. Kaoru Yosano, Japan's new economic czar, is a 7 dan, the highest level of go master. Given his reputation at the game, it's little surprise that Yosano can juggle three cabinet posts in the Japanese government: minister of the economy, minister of finance and head of the Financial Services Agency, which oversees banking. Facing what he calls "the biggest economic crisis since the Second World War," Yosano, 70, peers into the ever-deepening...