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...think a student that wins is going to have their profile raised if they want to be a journalist, an essayist, a writer,” Friedman said. “Whether they want to be a columnist one day like a Kristof or a Friedman—they have an opportunity to try it out on a large scale nationally,” he said, referring to prominent Times columnists Nicholas D. Kristof ’82 and Thomas L. Friedman, respectively...
Cloud seeding was invented in 1946 by Bernard Vonnegut, older brother to essayist and novelist Kurt. Since then, it has enjoyed a colorful history. Countries around the world quickly adopted the technology, and over the three decades following its introduction, the U.S. spent many millions of dollars a year on weather modification. It was even used during the Vietnam War to increase rainfall on the Ho Chi Minh trail to hamper supply movement, until word got out and the U.S. agreed not to play with the weather while making war. In the 1970s, the science of cloud seeding acquired...
Critic and essayist William L. Safire, writing for The “New York Times” in the wake of the books’ first wave of popularity, praised the first three “Harry Potter” books for “captivat[ing] a world of kids.” As for their literary value, Safire was far less optimistic...
Take the words of a young Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Class of 1829. The American poet and essayist arrived at Harvard in 1825 and was instantly dismayed at the quality of Cambridge women...
...melacholy in a Harvard panel entitled “Dreams, Sex, Dust: Three Vietnamese American Writers.” Novelist Gish Jen ’77 moderated the April 12 event together with Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Werner Sollors. Essayist Andrew Lam, performance artist Lan Tran, and poet Truong Tran all presented readings to the audience gathered in Ticknor Lounge. Sollors provided opening remarks and introduced the first reading, Andrew Lam’s “Child of Two Worlds,” an angst-ridden autobiographical sketch...