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...James R. Houghton '58, a member of Harvard's highest governing board, announced yesterday that he will step down as chair and CEO of Corning, Inc., after 13 years at the helm...
Furthermore, what exactly is in need of being preserved? Repositories such as the Houghton and Boston Public libraries preserve the integrity of Dickinson manuscripts, but are they responsible as well for "protectively" limiting the (physically non-invasive) interpretation of that material? As for "presenting" Dickinson's work, any presentational rendering beyond the actual physical display of the manuscripts and their facsimiles is, in the nature of the case, an interpretation, and as such open (like my printed rendering. Todd and Higginson's Johnson's, and Franklin's) to critique and even to being discredited...
...SABBATH'S THEATER by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) explores the beginnings of geezerhood (Roth's resolutely obnoxious hero, Mickey Sabbath, is a randy 64) with some of the same comic sexual energy that set readers goggling in Portnoy's Complaint. Sabbath is an ex-puppeteer whose present occupation is perfecting his scabrous personality. As he searches his disorderly past for meaning, largely without success, he is an equal-opportunity boor, richly offensive to women, men, Jews and Gentiles. Yet the result is a brilliantly written character, rampaging through a novel about facing death in a lonely...
...HAYSTACK, by Bonnie and Arthur Geisert (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), is a prize: a fascinating, beautifully drawn progression of Midwestern farmscapes showing the yearly building and slow consumption of an enormous, barn-sized haystack. Hay in a big field is cut with a tractor and sickle bar, then raked into windrows and stacked with a hydraulic lift and pitchforks. The great hay pile then serves as both food and shelter, first for cattle, then for pigs, through the long winter. There's no preaching, but important lessons are learned about work and weather, and how life might seem in the vast...
...SHORTCUT, by David Macaulay (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), is a funny, silly and exceedingly complicated adventure (Agatha Christie would have rejected the plot as too intricate) that is just right for an alert six-year-old and a wide-awake parent. The gifted artist, whose books Castle and Cathedral brought medieval architecture to life, starts with a farmer and his horse taking a load of melons to market and winds up dealing with a runaway train, a lost pig, an escaped hot-air balloon and more. All logical, too, if your eyes are sharp...