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Quality Care
As I read David Cutler's important new book on how to deal with the nation's most challenging social problem, I kept wanting more. Cutler...
Off the Shelf
The View from Nebo: How Archaeology Is Rewriting the Bible and Reshaping the Middle East, by Amy Dockser Marcus '87 (Little, Brown, $25.95)...
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...
Icon of the Life of the Mind
"Why can't one speak truth sometimes, and call C.E.N. publicly and without apology the infernal old sinner and sham that he is," wrote William...
Lost Art
The Harvard Dictionary of Music defined "improvisation" in 1969 as "[t]he art of performing music spontaneously, without the aid of manuscript...
Daniel Donoghue reviews Seamus Heaney's "Beowulf" translation
The morning after Beowulf wrenches off Grendel’s armthus purging the Danish royal hall of its unwelcome visitorKing...
Buy America
Buy America John D. Spooner ’59, author of Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around? (Adams Media...
Off the Shelf
On the Rez, by Ian Frazier ’73 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25). “This book is about Indians, particularly the Oglala...
Chapter & Verse
Janice Weiss asks where Benjamin DeMott may have written that literature is “an elegant clockworks that tells no time.”  ...
Chapter & Verse
James McCourt seeks a source for "The problem with the 'melting pot' theory is that those on the bottom get burned and the scum rises to...
Back to Basics
In the liner notes to the John Adams Earbox, 10 compact discs of works, primarily orchestral, by John Adams '69, A.M. '72, the composer recounts...