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Harvard’s Meredith Jameses stand in opposition to students like Amy E. Keel ’04, who hesitated to apply to or attend Harvard solely because of cost. The daughter of two public school teachers, Keel grew up in wealthy Milton, Mass. as the odd family out. “I hated when kids at school would read off long lists of what they got for Christmas,” says Keel. “I never had as much stuff. My mother wanted to have more kids, but we didn’t have enough money...
...play’s final stretch is ignited by the appearance of Madame (Eugenie E. Suter ’02), who seems to have been imported straight from a French Salon—assertive, affected, in charge, and yet, helpless. It is this odd mix that informs her relationship with Claire and Solange, whom she sends into a frenzy of servile activity, while she remains preoccupied with her own affairs...
...expected, Fox grew up fast, most certainly prematurely. Her teens were spotted with spells at a finishing school in Montreal and the Julliard School in New York, and by age 21 she had endured a failed marriage, given up a child for adoption and worked at a string of odd jobs, some days making shrimp cocktails and others painting Mexican scenes on pottery...
...naught to do with the theatre; Jeffry’s real name was Evelyn Fish and the Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery is little more than the entrance to Pusey Library. That said, it is worth the trip to Harvard’s underground library to see these 70-odd black and white portraits on display...
...first part of the book reads like a pastoral of a child's suburban springtime. Jon, the focus of the book, spends his laconic, carefree schooldays fooling around with his best friend Bjorn, reading comic books, eating candy and telling jokes. He lives in a slightly odd, magical universe where a pterodactyl may swoop down and fly off with his kite to his mild surprise. Stilts are used instead of cars and sometimes Jon's father lets him "drive it to the garage." The characters all have the faces of animals, but not in any sort of realistic...