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Zuckerman Bound by Philip Roth (1985). Roth's trilogy of novels about the American Jewish writer Nathan Zuckerman seems even more impressive whole than it did in its serial installments. Zuckerman is not Roth, exactly, but neither is he entirely unlike his creator, trapped by work and celebrity. The interplay between these fictional and real beings is unfailingly rich, comic and engaging...
...year at a Franciscan seminary, where his desire to become a priest eventually gave way before his love of women. By his senior year he was in Glen Ridge, N.J., where a knee injury dislodged him from the school wrestling team. He was miserable. Then he auditioned for the Nathan Detroit role in Guys and Dolls and got the part. "It was the first thing in my life for a long, long time that I felt excited about," Cruise says. He announced to his family that he was going to be an actor. Within a year he had a movie...
...Florence Ladd, director of Radcliffe's Bunting Institute and a friend of Dubois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins, who died of cancer this Tuesday morning...
PROFESSOR of Education and Social Structure Nathan Glazer uttered these frank words yesterday. Speaking at an Asian-American Association forum, the distinguished academic criticized the extension of affirmative action guidelines to minorities other than Black Americans in general, and to Asian-Americans in particular...
Speaking at a forum entitled "Are We Minorities?", sponsored by the Harvard/Radcliffe Asian-American Association (AAA), Professor of Education and Social Structure Nathan Glazer said that programs set up in the 1960s as an aid to Blacks should not apply to other minority groups...