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Alfred A. Knopf, $23
A. Alfred Taubman got his own building for $15 million (donors usually give about one-third to one-half of the expected cost of the project, plus an endowment to pay for maintenance).
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Harvard undergraduates will immediately recognize the true nature of Alfred Appel Jr.'s Art of Celebration--it is essentially a Literature and Arts B Core course on 20th-century modernism. And like good old Lit. & Arts B, the plum of the Core requirement, it is full of pretty pictures, music...
Occasionally, The Art of Celebration becomes a bit precious, like when Appel asks, "Do the people who collect classic modern plates ever actually use them? Does one's use of the rhetorical question and the impersonal pronoun disguise one's uneasiness with the subject, a fear of sounding effete about...