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Addressing a group of more than 75 students, faculty and guests in Boylston Hall yesterday evening, Cynthia Ozick, who generally treats contemporary Jewish themes, read from some of her works and discussed the influence of her childhood experiences on her writing...
...Ozick, whose short story "The Shawl" is read in many Expository Writing courses, read from "Puttermesser Creates a Golem," one of a series of stories featuring her heroine Ruth Puttermesser...
After reading the story, Ozick, who complained repeatedly about Cambridge's wet and cold weather, told the audience to "go and create a golem and have them clean this place...
...Ozick also read "A Drugstore in Winter," a memoir of her childhood in the Bronx in the 1930s...
Other honorary Brandies degree recipients were: Nathan S. Ancell, chairman of the board, emeritus, of Ethan Allen Inc.; Donald Hewitt, executive producer of "60 Minutes"; architect Philip Johnson; former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, Norman Leventhal Beacon Companies; writer and novelist. Cynthia Ozick; and Simone Veil, former president of the European Parliamentary Assembly; and Clara McBride Hale, a New York City resident who has spearheaded programs for ill and drug-addicted children...