Word: wolff
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...John Wolff, who turns 96 this month, drives his 1995 Buick Regal to doctor's appointments, local shops and, on Saturdays, to teach a class at Georgetown law school. "I just love to drive," he says. "It's the key to my independence." Wolff's daughter, Patricia Hartman, 59, is somewhat less enthusiastic about her dad's outings, but she tries not to worry about her father's driving...
Robert P. Wolff...
...smile, and seamless progress did not exist, Knowles was not afraid to cross colleagues who failed to stay on board. Three times in his deanship, he appointed trusted professors in unrelated fields to take over departments he believed were troubled—he deployed Professor of Music Christoph J. Wolff to oversee Linguistics in 1993 and Sanskrit in 1995, and just last year named Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber to take over Visual and Environmental Studies after removing the prior chair, Ellen Phelan, when she refused to resign...
...rest of the squad to make up the difference, and the shots just weren’t falling. B.U. Coach Dennis Wolff instructed his players to let Gellert see the open three, and it worked because Gellert missed all five of his attempts from behind the arc. Junior point guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman, the team’s second-best shooter who had a solid game last weekend against Stony Brook, only hit two of his ten long-range shots, while backup guard Brady Merchant missed all seven that he tried...
Grove tells the story of his first 20 years in Swimming Across (Warner Books; 290 pages; $26.95), an astringently unsentimental memoir that may find its place on a shelf with such works as Angela's Ashes, George Orwell's autobiographical essay "Such, Such Were the Joys" and Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life. There's a touch of The Painted Bird, of a Hungarian Huckleberry Finn...