HOW TO RULE THE WORLD: An Education in Power at Stanford Universityby Theo Baker If America is the strongest nation on earth, and Silicon Valley the strongest place in that nation, and Stanford the strongest establishment in that place, and a secretive community of scholars and grownup hangers-on there the hub of affect on campus…
Philip Caputo, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose best-selling, disillusioning memoir, “A Rumor of War,” about main a Marine platoon via the sniper-riddled and booby-trapped jungles of Vietnam, entered the canon of wartime literature, died on Thursday at his dwelling in Norwalk, Conn. He was 84. The trigger was most cancers, his son Marc Caputo wrote…
These tragic actress associations had been apt: After Pat’s husband, Sam Daniels, an appellate lawyer, left her for his secretary, she had psychotic depressive episodes that included, on one event, feeding the possessions of their three youngsters, whom she known as “schnickelfritzes,” right into a living-room hearth. Sam was clearly not the image of psychological…
Looking again, Crenshaw means that her traumatic childhood impressed her compassion for marginalized and invisible individuals. Even as we see the pall of unhappiness elevate — Crenshaw has some enjoyable when she works as an undergrad “smooth-groove cupid” DJ on late-night radio — the theme of repressed ache persists all through her Ivy League schooling…
WHEN WE SEE YOU AGAIN, by Rachel Goldberg-Polin He was a vegetarian who ate no greens or fruits, preferring beige meals. At 13, he recognized the dishwasher, racks eliminated, as a spot the place one may disguise a small refugee. He picked his pimples and had smelly armpits. When he kissed his dad and mom…
How to Be Cultured Menu [–> 1. Greatest onscreen performance? “Marlon Brando in ‘On the Waterfront’ (1954). He’s so calm, and he speaks the way he’d speak in real life, kind of mumbling. Paul Newman, too, in ‘Cool Hand Luke’ (1967). These men were almost father figures for me. I observed them in the absence…
