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American Society Unglued?
Thinking about civic engagement
Off the Shelf
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, by David Nasaw (Houghton Mifflin, $35). When Hearst moved into Matthews Hall in Harvard Yard in...
Commencement Address, the Genre
Commencement speeches, according to cartoonist Garry Trudeau, "were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never...
Chapter & Verse
Gerard Lenthall wishes to learn the identity of "Garamaz," a 1938 reference. Thomas Lemann would like a source for words attributed to...
Monastic Time/Harvard Time
Monastic Time/Harvard Time Each June for the past six years, Robert Kiely, Ph.D. '62, has been a guest at an Italian monastery for a...
A Lifetime with Bach
For some music lovers, it may be a relief when the 250th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach passes on July 28. Though he has...
Chapter & Verse
Lester Welch hopes to find a source for "You Care--I Dare," a didactic passage that ends, "If you love me, don't sing me your song. Teach me to...