![]() ![]() Xavier’s college and pursued an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Tripathi completed his graduation in Science from St. Amish Tripathi went to Cathedral & John Cannon Schools. Education He had to give up on his dream due to the financial conditions of his family and instead chose to do something that was much more financially supporting. ![]() ![]() Apart from mythology, he enjoyed reading history and wanted to become a historian. He was a curious reader since his childhood and took a lot of interest in Hindu mythologies. His grandfather served as a Pandit and also taught at Banaras Hindu University.
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![]() The sessions supposedly were a secret even to their spouses. Wyeth asked Testorf to model for him in 1971, and from then until 1985 he made 45 paintings and 200 drawings of her, many of which depicted her nude. There she raised a family of four children, and acted as caretaker to farmer Karl Kuerner, an elderly neighbor who was a friend and model for Wyeth. ![]() By 1961 they were living in Philadelphia, where she worked in a tannery, and they soon moved to Chadds Ford. ![]() In 1957, she met John Testorf, a German-born, naturalized American citizen, whom she married in 1958. After becoming seriously ill she left the convent and lived in Mannheim, where she studied to be a nurse and a masseuse. To John Updike, her body "is what Winslow Homer's maidens would have looked like beneath their calico." īorn in Germany, Helga entered a Prussian Protestant convent chosen by her father in 1955. Helga "Testy" Testorf was a neighbor of Wyeth's in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and over the course of fifteen years posed for Wyeth indoors and out of doors, nude and clothed, in attitudes that reminded writers of figures painted by Botticelli and Édouard Manet. ![]() 1939 ) created by American artist Andrew Wyeth between 19. The Helga Pictures are a series of more than 268 paintings and drawings of German model Helga Testorf (born c. Testorf portrayed in Braids (1979) by Andrew Wyeth ![]() ![]() Family members destroyed the bulk of Austen's correspondence, and her remaining letters were edited and censored, leaving the false impression that she was ''dedicated to trivia.'' Her fiction, after all, was never particularly autobiographical, and no diaries, if they ever existed, survived. Tomalin points out, Austen has been a notoriously elusive subject for biographers. She not only depicts a life that was considerably more worldly than commonly supposed, but also delineates an emotional experience ''full of events, of distress and even trauma,'' which permanently shaped Austen's apprehension of the world.Īs Ms. In her marvelous new biography of Austen, the English writer Claire Tomalin strips away this mythology to reveal a tough, humorous and highly resourceful woman. It is an observation that has been echoed over the centuries by many biographers and critics who have wondered how the shy, retiring daughter of a country clergyman ended up producing such sophisticated books how this English spinster, memorialized by her family for ''the sweetness of her temper,'' became the author of such ironic and fiercely modern novels. ![]() ''Of events her life was singularly barren,'' Jane Austen's nephew once observed, ''few changes and no great crisis ever broke the smooth current of its course.'' ![]() ![]() ![]() Astronauts from the Athena crew have already died on its surface. But surviving the mission to Europa is not a given. ![]() ![]() With megastorms, rising seas, drought, and unpredictable weather patterns battering the Earth, humankind has decided that it’s time to execute Plan B: terraform Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter.Īn international committee of scientists, the ISTC, announces that 24 teenagers will be drafted from across the world and compelled to leave Earth forever in order to give their fellow humans a shot at survival. The Final Six is a young adult science fiction novel that leapfrogs the reader into a dystopian future in which space colonization is humanity’s best hope for survival. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller to a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon in 1890, and was the youngest of the Miller’s three children. ![]() ![]() Let’s look back at where it all started…Īgatha Christie, by her own account, had a happy childhood. So since she is such a beloved, prolific author, it is fascinating to do a deep dive into the beginning of Christie’s career: The first book in the Hercule Poirot series, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Her books have sold more copies than any others except the works of Shakespeare and the Bible. There have been over two billion copies of Agatha Christie books printed in over 100 languages. She’s one of the world’s most successful writers in history. ![]() A first painting, a first song, a first book: these are all cultivated from our brains, which have been informed by our interests and surroundings. It is who we are that influences what we create. The opposite, however, can be said about art. These experiences in our childhood and formative years are important, because they help shape our interests, and ultimately, who we become. And as we grow, it doesn’t stop, continuing through our teens into our adult years. In our culture, there is a lot of importance placed on “firsts.” From the moment you draw your first (yep) breath, your life is measured in firsts: your first smile, your first word, your first toy, your first day of school. ![]() ![]() ![]() The conversations between Brendel and Meyer are both serious and witty. ![]() ![]() Brendel talks about the freedoms and obligations of a performer and discusses the work ofmusicians who have fascinated him Alfred Cortot, Edwin Fischer, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Wilhelm Kempff, and Bruno Walter and those who have irritated him, as did Glenn Gould. His solo recitals and appearances with the leading orchestras of the world make him a regular guest in London, Paris, New York, Vienna, Berlin, Munich, and Amsterdam, and at the major European and American music festivals.In a series of dialogues with Martin Meyer, Brendel speaks about his life, the development of his career, his music-making, his travels, his poems and essays about his childhood in Zagreb, adolescence in Graz, and experiences as a young man in Vienna ("I was in Vienna, but I was never a 'genuine' Viennese") about literature, painting, architecture, and kitsch. "I was not a child prodigy indeed, I had none of the requisite qualities for making a successful career." This "shortcoming" has not prevented Alfred Brendel from becoming one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.įor information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003. ![]() LippincottĪfterword copyright © 2002 by Bruce CovilleĪll rights reserved. Illustrations copyright © 1991 by Gary A. This book is also very well written, which made it a pleasure to read aloud.I'm not good at judging the appropriate age range, but I think that this book would be good for almost all elementary school kids. It was the depth of this relationship that made the book's ending so poignant. But the best part of this book was watching the relationship develop between Jeremy and his dragon. ![]() The plot of this book had enough depth to it to hold everyone's interest (including mine). But when he wonders into a magic shop one day after school, he's faced with a task that is anything but typical, hatching and raising a dragon. His art teacher gives him a hard time, even though art is his best subject. Jeremy Thatcher is a sixth grader, and his struggles are typical for his age. The series also includes Jennifer Murdley's Toad, which both of my boys heard at school. I loved this book, and so did both my first-grader and my fourth-grader! This is one of Bruce Coville's Magic Shop Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Blending compelling science, storytelling, and a grand evolutionary perspective, she delineatesthe essential role that cooperation and companionship play in creating human (and non-human) societies. ![]() Lydia meets scientists at the frontiers of brain and genetics research, and discovers that friendship is reflected in our brain waves, our genomes, and our cardiovascular and immune systems its opposite, loneliness, can kill.With insight and warmth, Lydia weaves past and present, biology and neuroscience, to show how our bodies and minds are designed for friendship, and how this is changing in the age of social media. She finds that the human capacity for friendship is as old as humanity itself, when tribes of people on the African savanna grew large enough for individuals to seek meaningful connection with those outside their immediate families. ![]() But what makes these bonds not just pleasant but essential, and how do they affect our bodies and our minds?In Friendship, science journalist Lydia Denworth takes us in search of the biological, psychological, and evolutionary foundations of this important bond. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. The phenomenon of friendship is universal. ![]() ![]() So it's good, but as with most recent Lemire comics, the real strength of the volume is Dusting Nguyen's artwork, just wonderful (though Robin reminds me too much of Tim, the boy bot from Ascender/Descender.Īn awesome miniseries. There's a hug that happens later, with Bat telling Robin he's a good boy (not just good superhero-in-training). There are sweet moments: A surprise birthday party featuring Superman and Wonder Woman, though what Alfred sees Dick needs is a more intimate gift, a closer relationship. ![]() Enter the guy that raised Bruce Wayne, Alfred, who plays a kind of mother to Wayne's father, angrily confronting him along the way. So this is what Lemire does, father-son stories, where the father needs to learn how to be a father.īut Bruce Wayne's parents were killed, and he doesn't really know how to be a father what he knows is his work, and how to develop Dick into Robin, which is a somewhat different thing. ![]() ![]() This is NOT titled Batman & Robin, as in the the sixties TV show song, but Robin & Batman, having as its focus Robin/Dick Grayson developing his relationship to Batman/Bruce Wayne. I am cutting back on my comics reading, especially DC/Marvel stuff, but I try to read all the Lemire work I can, and try to minimally keep reading Batman stuff. ![]() |