General News
Mitch Garner Blogs from Beijing
Mitch Garner is blogging for Road Runners of America on his experiences at the Beijing Olympics--click here and look for his "Blog from Beijing" installments, or visit www.rrca.org/news.
August 12, 2008
Martin Rubin on Doris Lessing’s ‘Alfred & Emily’
Reimagined Lives By MARTIN RUBIN Wall Street Journal August 9, 2008 Alfred & Emily By Doris Lessing Harper, 274 pages, $25.95 "The hoopla surrounding last year's Nobel Prize in Literature was such an ordeal, and so distracting, that it has caused Doris Lessing to stop writing---or so she has…
August 8, 2008
Martin Rubin on ‘Daphne’ by Justine Picardie
-------------------- 'Daphne,' by Justine Picardie -------------------- By Martin Rubin Special to the (L.A.) Times August 5 2008 "JUSTINE PICARDIE'S 'Daphne,' which focuses on Daphne du Maurier's life in crisis as she turns 50 and prepares to celebrate her silver wedding anniversary, is an…
August 6, 2008
Memorial for Bob Shapiro Nov. 16 at NYC Yale Club
As many readers know, our dear friend and classmate Bob Shapiro (TC) passed away on May 27. Although quite a few classmates were able to attend his funeral, the Class Council agreed that it would be appropriate to hold a class memorial service for Bob who played such an important role in the life…
August 1, 2008
Photos: Jim Kaplan NYC July 4 Walking Tour
Classmates, enjoy Jim Kaplan's 2008 pre-dawn walking tour of historical sites in lower Manhattan, courtesy of Rick Cech's atmospheric photos (must be logged in to view): click here for the photo gallery click here for Jim's Wall Street Journal article on this annual event
July 31, 2008
Next NYC ’71 Class Lunch September 12
The next Robert I. Shapiro Memorial Lunch will be held at the New York City Yale Club on Friday, September 12, 2008 at 12:30 pm. Further instructions will follow. No Class lunch in August. See you in September!
July 25, 2008
Kim Barkan: Thoughts of a Five Year B.A. Grad
I write to note that I was in the 5 Year B.A. class of '69-'70, and took that time to work on an agricultural scheme in the Copper Belt, growing vegetables for a truck farming project for a variety of different small farmers brought from hither and yon in Zambia, and then, for six months, to teach…
July 14, 2008
Martin Rubin Reviews Herbert Gold Memoir
Here's a book that sounds as though it should be a comfort to many of us: Friday, July 11, 2008 (SF Chronicle) Memoir review: Herbert Gold looks back Martin Rubin Still Alive! A Temporary Condition By Herbert Gold Arcade; 249 pages; $25 "'A most astonishing thing,' wrote W.B. Yeats in 1935.…
July 13, 2008
Martin Rubin on ‘Thrumpton Hall’ by Miranda Seymour
'Thrumpton Hall' by Miranda Seymour A memoir of life in the Nottinghamshire manor house that had so captivated her father. By Martin Rubin, Special to The (L.A.) Times July 12, 2008 "This enthralling book is not just another tale of restoring -- and living in the decaying magnificence of -- an…
July 12, 2008
Jim Kaplan’s July 4 Walking Tour of Lower Manhattan
Jim Kaplan writes in the July 1 Wall Street Journal: Early American History: My 2 a.m. Walking Tour By JAMES S. KAPLAN NEW YORK---While many of you are snug in your beds in the wee hours of July 4, dreaming, perhaps, of your day to come at the beach, the golf club, or your home barbecue, I will be…
July 1, 2008