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DIED. HELEN WOLFF, 88; publisher; in Hanover, New Hampshire. Arriving penniless as refugees in New York in 1941, Wolff and her husband Kurt founded Pantheon Books within a year, aided by their Continental credits (Kurt was the first publisher of Franz Kafka) and Helen's command of several languages. At Pantheon and later under the Harcourt Brace Jovanovich imprint "A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book," she introduced Americans to Boris Pasternak, Gunter Grass and Umberto...
...Council also passed new guidelines for thehiring of graduate student teaching fellows. Deanof the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences [GSAS]Christoph J. Wolff presented the guidelines forthe Council's approval, Fox said...
...Wolff made a presentation to the Councilexplaining the need for the new policy. Problemswith the present system include the delay ininforming graduate students about teachingassignments, the inconvenience of professorsscrambling to find TFs after a course has begun tomeet, and the trails of undergraduates forced tosuffer through semesters with unprepared andinexperienced...
Many teaching fellows are not informed thatthey will be working in a certain class until thefourth week of the semester, Wolff said...
...Tobias Wolff's subtle, vivid memoir, This Boy's Life, was converted into a one-track movie centered on the loutish, vicious behavior of Wolff's stepfather, played by Robert De Niro. Fried Green Tomatoes, released in 1991, was a masterpiece of artfully soft-edged propaganda, a regular Birth of a Nation of antimale bias: almost all the male characters were brutes or fools or slobs except for a mute, guardian black giant, who was a sort of eunuch figure, and a sainted brother who died an awful death when young and innocent, and a little...