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Despair in Brooklyn

By Philip M. Rubin  • 

A PHOTOGRAPH IN LAST Thursday's New York Times showed James Sinkler after hearing that his son, Tyrone, was one of


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Mick in the Movies

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Mick Jagger is back after a long absence from the film world. The man who remains at the very heart


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Sham and Grist

By Philip M. Rubin  • 

T HE POPULAR PERCEPTION of the William Kennedy Smith murder trial is that the television cameras are making a circus


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OFA: A Real Jerk

By Philip M. Rubin  • 

death. it defies the soul. but in the spirit of its absurdity it lingers it labors it languishes piercing through


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This Doorman Doesn't Hold Doors

By Philip M. Rubin  • 

R einaldo Arenas' book, The Doorman, bears some resemblance to the popular Ray Bradbury work The Martian Chronicles. Both satirize


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35-Year-Old Sophomore Gordon Fauth Juggles Yet Another Experience: College Life

By Philip M. Rubin  • 

As he stands in the Square waiting to get his picture taken, Gordon M. Fauth '93 has to be reminded


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WHO SAYS OPPOSITES ATTRACT?

By Philip M. Rubin  • 

Certainly Not Many of Harvard's Couples, Whose Attachments Suggest That the College's True Social Organizations Are Neither Fraternities Nor Final


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David Layzer: Teaching Science Through Prose or Poetry, But Not Equations

By Philip M. Rubin  • 

About a month ago, Menzel Professor of Astrophysics David R. Layzer '47 phoned Lou LaRocca '92 and asked the Cabot


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Distinctly Southern Melancholy

By Philip M. Rubin  • 

S PORTS novels seem to fall into two central categories: those which describe a great triumph or defeat and those


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It's Muzak to My Ears

By Philip M. Rubin  • 

I T WAS hot, my head was pounding and crippling cramps ran through my legs. Near fainting from fatigue and

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