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Alnilam's protagonist is Frank Cahill, an Atlanta amusement-park and swimming-pool owner who has recently been blinded by diabetes. He learns that his son Joel is missing and presumed dead after a military aircraft training accident in North Carolina. Cahill and his touchy German shepherd Zack travel to Peckover air base to learn more, even though father has never laid eyes on son. Cahill had been abandoned by his wife shortly before Joel was born, 19 years earlier...
...History and English Departments have been the most noticeable, however, perhaps because of the large number of undergraduate concentrators in each one. The American field was hardest hit in each department. English Department Chairman Joel Porte admits that a student who wants to study America at Harvard is "in a tough spot...
Next year, after Emerson expert and English Chairman Joel Porte leaves the University to accept a fulltime post at Cornell University next year, the department will have only one full-time Americanist on the faculty. Professor of English Sacvan Bercovitch, who was lured away from Columbia University in 1983, will have to hold down the fort alone next year. Ironically, he came to Harvard saying he hoped to lead a renaissance of the study of American culture...
This semester three senior professor haveannounced their intentions to leave Harvard.Chairman of the History and Literature DepartmentJohn Brewer will go to UCLA. Chairman of theEnglish Department Joel Porte has accepted a postat Cornell. And Professor of Romance Languages andLiteratures Jean-Marie Apostolides is leaving forStanford...
...release pictures into the world for years. He may even win a bit of fame in the process. But it can take a survey show to make his full intentions clear. The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston last week opened a welcome exhibition that does just that for Joel Sternfeld, whose images of Americans contesting with their landscape began appearing in the late 1970s. The exhibit, which runs in Houston through June 7 and later moves on to Detroit and Baltimore, binds Sternfeld's work into a whole. Pictures that were once compelling oddities are now linked into...