Word: harrison
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...only a matter of time before McGuane looked through the bottom of a shot glass and glimpsed his own mortality. Observes longtime friend and fellow novelist Jim Harrison (Legends of the Fall): "Like a lot of writers, we started out reading Rimbaud and Dostoyevsky, and you think that in order to write you also have to be partly crazy. And later on it occurs to us that we're going to die unless we behave." Realizing that "my streak of self- destructiveness had to end," McGuane quit drinking and poured himself into writing. Two novels -- Nobody's Angel...
...then there was Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom ("friendly attitude"--the CUE Guide). At the same forum, he placed a five dollar bill on the table, betting Assistant Professor of Sociology and of Afro-American Studies Roderick J. Harrison that Black professors at other Ivy League universities are "unqualified" as academics...
That is not to say that there are no qualified women and minority scholars out there already. As Harrison notes, "Considerable progress can be made by simply reaching [minorities and women] and getting applications from them." Department officials can be encouraged to make a greater effort to recruit those scholars...
...self-consciousness is not enough. As a community, we must do what we know is right. The 90's will be here in a few weeks, and , as Harrison says of gender and racial equality, "We can't afford another 10 years of loss...
...CIRCLE. Rex Harrison, 81, gives an elegantly understated turn in Somerset Maugham's beguiling Broadway comedy of marital scandal and autumnal passion. Stewart Granger and Glynis Johns co-star...