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When Stepek told the student that a publicrecital would be inappropriate, the student beganaddressing guest speaker David Ross, Director ofthe Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan...
...just as he laid bare the arcana of higher mathematics in his 1987 best seller, Chaos. Gleick also uncovers some of the forces that created a man who could devotedly nurse his first wife as she lay dying of tuberculosis in a sanatorium a few miles from the wartime Manhattan Project, where he worked, yet later in life could make a sport out of picking women up in bars; a man who despised hero worship yet wrote books in which he was the hero; a man who rarely taught classes or took on doctoral students but is regarded...
...drama department at Manhattan's ritzy Dalton School is so politically correct that a recent production of Bertolt Brecht's classic The Good Woman of Sichuan, the story of a young woman who disguises herself as a man, was titled The Good Person of Sichuan. Watch for other revisions in these hypersensitive times...
...choose our moments of epiphany. I wish that mine had occurred while I was poring over Hesiod's Theogeny or Wittgensteinian tracts. Life unfortunately is not often subtle; its punches are direct and (if you emerge unscathed) illuminating. Earlier this autumn, I was in front of an upscale Manhattan emporium, an indigent family, authentically caked in grime and clothed, literally, in rags, a stark contrast with the bored impolitically furclad matrons streaming out of the store. (Yes, the Dickensian parallel is deliberate...
...Toss off your accomplishments lightly. It is enormously helpful if your senior thesis is the object of a ferocious bidding war on the Manhattan literary scene or if you're a serious contender for a Cabinet appointment...