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...million books, would approve of his final resting place, for there was a bit of the Grinch in him. He cherished the solitude of his mountaintop retreat, and he never had children of his own. ("You make 'em, I amuse 'em," he famously said.) He doted instead on the menagerie of misfits and mischiefmakers who have populated his children's books since 1937's "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street." Unlike Walt Disney and Charles M. Schulz, Geisel kept the T-shirts and adaptations to a minimum - one fabulous exception being animator Chuck Jones...
...find Kevin to be really warm and willing to give information as to how he got to where he is," Carol A. Turkoc said. "His talk shows Boston as being a community of creative people instead of something cutthroat...
...drifts into the inn in the first act and out before the fourth. Luka preaches a doctrine of benevolent suffering in the face of rampant injustice. Luka guides some of the drifters to dream of a better life in a distant future and of helping people in the present instead of drowning in cold, hard realities. Fitzgerald's Luka is gentle and his good humor is radiant. Even with a shock of blond hair he cuts a better wizened-old man than many wizened...
...copies of Ingres's portraits have been altered, or, to use Gilje's term, "restored." Instead of adding moustaches to these 19th century French figures, Gilje inserts contemporary references into the images. One man wears a black leather harness under his period jacket. A woman in an Empire dress and plumed hat displays her nipple rings and Warhol himself appears in a triple portrait. The question is, are Gilje's drawings anything more than amusing...
...Harvard, no one talks about wealth, no one addresses the issue, and no one helps us understand how to come to terms with this particular type of diversity. The College offers but one meal plan to its undergraduates in the hopes that instead of confronting and evaluating a genuine social problem on campus, the dining halls will bring students together, acting as the great equalizer to combat our disparate affluence. It is telling that the Committee on House Life releases detailed information about the number of Varsity athletes and blacks in each blocking group, but no data explaining the distribution...