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...instance, Mary Anne Wall Hyde '44 met her husband Albert F. Hyde II '43 when he crashed a tea for Radcliffe first-years "to look over the crop of freshmen...
...Albert Murray, the black social critic, once wisecracked, "Sure we got our troubles, but if white folks could be black for just one Saturday night, they wouldn't never want to be white folks no more." Henry Louis Gates Jr. does not go nearly that far in Colored People (Knopf; 216 pages; $22), his memoir of growing up in a West Virginia mill town during the 1950s and '60s. But his beguiling elegy for the exuberant society blacks created for themselves under the veil of segregation provides one explanation of why few African Americans, even if they had the power...
...Dante and Magellan about sailing around the wold or under it, and so on. So along comes Steve Martin who went to school before teachers were this nice, and he decides to write a fictional meeting between two of the 20th century's most formative figures, Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein, not knowing that the entire premise would be his best joke for young audiences...
Instead of letting himself be remembered for his great comedy, Martin has taken on the tough project of writing a quasi-compendious retrospective of scientific and artistic thought since 1904. In Martin's debut as a playwright, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Albert Einstein (played by Thomas Derrah) shows up at the famous Montmartre bohemian artists' hang-out the Lapin Agile. While working out theorems and waiting for his date to show up, Einstein meets Picasso (Bill Camp) who stumbles in hoping to be noticed and admired. At first distant and confrontational, the two great minds turn their sparring into...
Third, I have not "left." I continue to serve as Provost, to fulfill all my duties and to speak on the University's behalf--at the campaign kickoff and at other development and alumni events, in Cambridge and across the country. I am working with Kennedy School Dean Albert Carnesale and others to insure a smooth transition at the end of the academic year. Jerry R. Green Provost