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...finish by his deadline. Philip D. Zelikow—a student of May’s over 20 years after Iriye—said that while May’s lectures were “not flamboyant,” he was a “thoughtful and witty?? instructor. “He was very interested in challenging students to think a little harder about the material,” Zelikow said. “He was less interested in selling a point of view than getting you to think.”Both Iriye and Zelikow...
Jane M. Morse, who met Symonds when she worked at Harvard in the 1970s and was married to him for five years, described how “delightful” and “witty?? he was and his devotion to the Harvard theatre...
Recent events have also reminded us of the dangerously permanent nature of webmail. What once seemed witty??flirtatious allusions to “The Fountainhead” and pathetic little postscripts in Portuguese—will eventually seem embarrassing. And those cute little Van Morrison subject headings now read forced instead of funny. A heading left blank, however, screams indifferent, and “Re: re: re: hey,” convinces me you just don’t care. Good e-mail correspondence can create quite the sexual tension, I’ll admit, but well-thought...
...holding my hairbrush like a microphone and screaming along. But the Dylan crept up on me, with quirky lines like “Mona Lisa must’ve had the Highway Blues, you can tell by the way she smiled,” which struck me as incredibly witty??and true. When he sang “I want you, I want you, I want you soooo bad,” it was as though he’d channeled the intensity—and absurdity—of my teenage desires...
Whether I pretended to be tough and witty??fooling nobody—or peppy beyond the capabilities of caffeine, there have been few times when my genuine emotions were reflected on my face. In fact, I’m only writing this column instead of my planned Red Sox story because I’m a little drunk...