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...voice leaps in style from snake oil charlatan to coke addict to dyspeptic political pundit. A prenatal savant, he fires off puns and bawdy jokes with a facility alternately Shakespearean and sophomoric. While the narrator never loses steam—sentences regularly stretch over one hundred words??readers might occasionally wish he’d pause to let the rest of us recover from the latest verbal landslide. I wish, for example, there were a few more scenes like that of the narrator’s Uncle Fernando air-dropped into a remote and impoverished Native American community...
...Kumin says that she and her Radcliffe classmates still harbor some hard feelings toward the University that—in her words??“swallowed” their alma mater in a 1971 quasi-merger. “We feel quite bitter about it,” she says...
Gates, who hosted the event, added that he could imagine no celebration of Soyinka’s life more appropriate than “a feast of words??words created by some of his favorite writers, who also happen to be Nobel Laureates...
...sometime during reading period, a group of girls is going to have “a good time”—Ryan’s words??with the two defensemen...
...though Sullivan’s goal was “soft”—Welch’s words??Grumet-Morris had indeed kept Harvard in the hunt...