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...It’s highly unhealthy, but the Superbowl is a great excuse to bake one,” said Timothy J. Alford, a Divinity School graduate who was watching the game in Holworthy...
...Lowdown: The new year is upon us. Break out the optimism, the resolutions and the thinly-veiled self-help books. There are some, like Henry Alford's How To Live that hide their chicken-soup soul within the well-structured tale of a fruitful personal journey. Then there are those such as Rich Like Them, whose vigorous attempts to shake off the label ("It's not what you think of as a traditional self-help book...I chose instead to look at the context of these lives, to tell people's stories"), just end up making the author sound slightly...
...older you get, we often naturally assume, the wiser you become. Decade upon decade of experience - victories and failures alike - grant each of us oodles of life lessons to pass on to that foolish, fresh-faced younger generation. Or so we think. Author Henry Alford embarked upon a journey to discover whether this is actually true, interviewing scores of people - some celebrities like playwright Edward Albee and literary greybeard Harold Bloom, others just plain ole old folks, such as the 75-year old Katrina survivor whose story brings the author to tears. Along the way, Alford's 79-year...
...Lowdown: With its self-helpish title, How To Live might easily be mistaken for a book full of aphorisms and life lessons - a Chicken Soup for the Non-Elderly Soul. Thankfully, Alford is smarter than that, and his book is impressively understated in its desire to actually impart wisdom. It's more a collection of mini-profiles on fascinating senior citizens - the aforementioned Granny D., whose advanced age does nothing to lessen her spunk, the self-obsessed actress Sylvia Miles, and the simply bizarre hitchhiking, dumpster-diving Eugene Loh. The inclusion of Alford's elderly mother, who decided to divorce...
...constructing new roads in the neighborhood, which University planners said were necessary to handle the increased traffic flow brought by the development. “I cannot believe that [even though] we were opposed to additional roads, [that] now there are two,” said Allston resident Paul Alford. “It doesn’t appear that the community’s input is being listened to at all.” Kathy A. Spiegelman, Harvard’s chief planner for Allston, said that although the new roads were needed to keep traffic off residential streets...