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...Thursday, Dec. 5, 1963, Arthur Inman, one of the most bizarre Americans in the history of the Republic, went into his toilet carrying a Colt revolver. The latest in a lifelong string of crises, real or imagined, to cause Inman to despair was rising outside his old haunt in Boston's Back Bay. "The Prudential Tower," he had told his diary, "is 28 stories into the sky, soon will be goosing God." He had fled to Brookline to escape the din of construction, taking with him the noises in his head, and now he was over the edge. "This...
What is not mentioned enough, however, is Professor Aaron, who spent these past seven years inside the tortured mind of the megalomaniacal bigot misogynist Peeping Tom hypochondriac called Arthur Inman. In his fulminations, Inman addresses the editor who would not come along until twelve years after his death; he bullies, wheedles, whines, pleads. Then along comes Aaron, who responds to the dead diarist--and in so doing becomes a flesh-and-blood character. Inman says at one point that "a diary expurgated and deleted is a eunuch of a diary." Aaron says at another, "Oh, for God's sake, Arthur...
Anthropology Department Chair Arthur Kleinman followed Skocpol, expanding upon her statement in no uncertain terms: “We are not cowards, we are not spineless, we are not with...
...Hyman is out there trying to run the University as Summers has withdrawn to repair the damage and recreate himself,” says Anthropology Department Chair Arthur Kleinman...
...school kicked off a three-year capital campaign in 2003 with a $25 million donation from Silicon Valley venture capitalist Arthur Rock and a $32 million gift from Weather Channel founder Frank Batten...