Word: letterer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rosovsky's writing is, for the most part, clear and forceful, although some readers may object that it is a little on the cutesy side. Chapter One is a perfect example; it is written as a Japanese-style letter of introduction in which he refers to himself...
...apartment. They looked so fantastic." Now he is rummaging his way through the '50s, which, from the viewpoint of someone born in 1957, is an era of sexy, whimsical dressing. For fall he plans to draw on "all my favorite old clothes -- trench coats, pajamas, pea coats, letter sweaters. My bride will be a prom queen, maybe in a big, reversible skirt." To get himself in the mood, he runs around Greenwich Village, where he has bought a brownstone, in his father's old camel-hair topcoat...
Music and joy have always been "Slava" Rostropovich's great goals, but he is also remarkable for his repeated refusals to bow down before the Kremlin. When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn came under fire for his books on the Soviet Gulag, Rostropovich took him into his house. He also wrote a letter attacking the censors who banned Solzhenitsyn's work. "For 48 hours after I wrote that letter," Rostropovich recalls, "Galina did not sleep but cried. She told me, 'You have the right to destroy yourself, but what right do you have to destroy my life and the lives of your daughters...
...compare "Ask Beth's" revolving-door relationship theory to my reverse-advice attrition for a letter from "Insecure." It begins, "This guy I loved left for the army and treated me like dirt...
Last semester, the Harvard Sigma Alpha Mu chapter sponsored a bowl-a-thon to raise money for cerebral palsy research and held a fund-raiser for the poor in Roxbury, according to the letter to first-year students...