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...music. When the Baline family fled the Russian pogroms in 1892 for the tenements of New York, young Israel was four. The Statue of Liberty was only a couple of years older. His father Moses, a cantor, died when the boy was eight, so he hit the streets in search of work. Izzy sang for pennies anywhere he could find listeners, finally landing a job as a singing waiter in a raffish Chinatown bistro; it was there that he wrote his first song, Marie from Sunny Italy, in partnership with the cafe's pianist. When the song was published...
Moreover, Parker's Marlowe can seem like an anachronism in search of a time frame. He drinks rye, smokes Camels and charges only $100 a day plus expenses. But there are contemporary touches. Women wear tank tops and police uniforms, and pornography has gone public...
Joining Jewett on the search committee are Reardon Dean of Admissions Wiliam R. Fitzsimmons '67 Dean of Radcliffe College Philippa A. Bovet, GSAS Dean of Student Affairs Margot N. Gill, Associate Dean Robert A. Rotner, McKay professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics Myron B. Fiering '55 and Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Hernstein...
When Thomas C. Schelling was on an Economics Department senior search committee in 1976, he wanted Harvard to hire a Stanford economist named A. Michael Spence...
...Country was meant to be a story of one girl's search for the meaning and justice behind a war that deprived her of a family. But the movie gets bogged down in the ancillary characters and events which make up Samantha's life without providing any insights into the character that would allow audiences to better empathize with...