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...Norman Rush is something of an oddity in the world of American letters, a world that sometimes seems to be populated solely by wunderkinder and éminences grises. Born in 1933, Rush worked as a teacher and a rare-books dealer and did a stint with the Peace Corps in Africa before he finally published his first novel, Mating, in 1991. It promptly won the U.S. National Book Award. Rush then resumed his silence. Now, 12 years later, we have the remarkable Mortals, which gives us the late-blooming Rush as challenging and surprising and uncompromising as ever. Ray Finch...
Summers then conferred honorary degrees on 11 leaders from the world of business, art and academia. When Provost Steven E. Hyman read a brief biography of honorand Norman C. Francis and took a breath after mentioning that Francis served as chair of Educational Testing Services, hisses arose from the audience...
...personalities from our genes and our habits from the nurturing of others or our environment. My birth mother and my adoptive mother are as different as night and day, and seeing what each of them has passed on to me has been an enrichment and a joy. BETTY A. NORMAN Netcong...
...gates opened. One former Orwell girlfriend told Taylor he was the eighth biographer to approach her. There have been at least as many Orwell detractors. Hitchens spends his entire book ably rescuing the author from critics both left (E.P. Thompson, Raymond Williams) and right (T.S. Eliot, Norman Podhoretz) who felt he slighted their causes or supported things - like virulent anti-communism - that he didn't. Hitchens has a more difficult time explaining away the list of 35 "crypto-communists" Orwell gave to British intelligence in 1948; the defense that no one was harmed by Orwell's revelations does not remove...
Summers then conferred honorary degrees on 11 leaders from the world of business, art and academia. When Provost Steven E. Hyman read a brief biography of honorand Norman C. Francis and took a breath after mentioning that Francis served as chair of Educational Testing Services, hisses arose from the audience...