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...EARLY chapter of his biography of Hawthorne, James R. Mellow remarks somewhat apologetically that few family anecdotes survive from the author's childhood. In the next few sentences, Mellow goes on to relate five such anecdotes, not one of which provides any useful information about Hawthorne's disposition or character. One of Mellow's vignettes concerns Hawthorne's reaction to a bothersome neighboring woman: "Take her away!" the young Nathaniel apparently cried, "She is ugly and fat, and has a loud voice...
...Harvard Steele describes in his early chapter differs vastly from the megalith today's students know. Big-name professors devoted time to undergraduates; patrician competition for acceptance to social clubs was not the exception but the rule; and students lacked the "social awareness" to rally at protests and demonstrations. Lippmann's Jewish heritage barred his entrance to most college groups and organizations. The Crimson blackballed him. But Lippmann gained recognition as one of the keenest minds of his class. To strengthen his grasp of the moral issues socialism involved, he pored through volumes of Fabian society tracts and Marxist literature...
...moved so quickly that his mouth was on mine before either of us could speak ... I knew perfectly well that, whatever adjustments or deceits must inevitably follow, the strange man beside me, more than my husband, owned me." Another steamy Hollywood confession? Indeed, and also another titillating chapter in the ever expanding Kennedy legend. This time the protagonist is not Lady-Killer Jack, but Joseph Sr., family patriarch. In her soon-to-be-published autobiography, Swanson on Swanson, former Movie Queen Gloria Swanson, 81, describes a 1927-29 liaison with the elder Kennedy, a business partner in many...
...fourth chapter in the Crimson football team's 1980 story concluded, as did the first three, on an upbeat note. With first-string quarterback Brian Buckley sidelined with a knee injury, junior Mike Buchanan directed the Crimson offense cautiously but solidly, completing nine of 13 passes without surrendering an interception and collecting 61 yds. on the ground...
...MANY WAYS, STARDUST MEMORIES is just another bad showbiz memoir: Behind the scenes with Woody; On the set with Woody; In bed with Woody; Despair with a Woody; Death with Woody, chapter after chapter of intimate details, full of frustration with the medium, anger at the critics and fans, tempestuous words spilled over mundane problems. He does act--his life changes--but we never see the changes occur. He marks the passing of time by the various women who warm to his gentle nudging...