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bookshelf A Life Beyond Ideology is a major Paul Oppenheimer ’57 new scholarly spuyten duyvil Press, november, 2010 art matters: biography of Hemingway, craft, Machiavelli, the first and the creation of the modern in his fourth published in 30 Short Story collection of poems, years. niccolo di by robert Paul Lamb ’68 In Times of Danger, bernardo Louisiana state university Press, novelist, journalist, Machiavelli is not January 2010 professor, translator only one of the and widely-pubmost fascinating figures of the italian in Art Matters, prof. lished short story renaissance but indisputably among robert paul lamb writer paul the most influential political theorists of ’68 provides the oppenheimer ’57 any age. Machiavelli’s adventurous life definitive study of presents a love story led him to notable heights as a diploernest Hemingway’s told almost entirely in brisk, often racy mat and reformer of the florentine short story aesthet- modern sonnets set against a backmilitary. His fall, exile and eventual ics. lamb locates ground of the rural Hudson valley and rehabilitation came as swiftly as his Hemingway’s art in new york city—before, during and after rise. His experiential insights led to a literary historical the catastrophe of 9/11. “i need a form shift in the perception of statehood, war contexts and that i did not invent,” writes and society from forms of stasis to explains what he learned from earlier oppenheimer, “tuned by ancient anguish those of process. all this unfolds in prof. artists, including edgar allan poe, paul to impart/the strain of modern doubt: an paul oppenheimer’s ’57 compelling cézanne, Henry James, Guy de instrument/just right, just now, on which recreation of Machiavelli’s life as he Maupassant, anton chekhov, Stephen to test my heart.” His test turns into a actually lived it, from his family background and childhood, to his years as crane, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, struggle that sweeps up history, elusive love, preparations for war and the war in advisor to the Medici family, to his and ezra pound. examining how Hemingway developed this inheritance, iraq in more than 90 accomplished death and historical legacy. lamb, a professor at purdue University, renderings of poetry’s oldest and still insightfully charts the evolution of the most powerful form. The Adirondack unique style and innovative techniques Review wrote: “focusing on new york See yourself Sensing; that would forever change the nature of city circa 9/11, oppenheimer’s poetry is Redefining Human Perception short fiction. Art Matters opens with an in tune with the city’s initial aloof by madeline schwartzman ’79 analysis of the authorial effacement insularity, and its post-attack fiery search black dog Publishing, august, 2011 Hemingway learned from Maupassant for retribution, its brittle conscientiousand chekhov, followed by fresh perness, and fragile heart. yet, despite all Did you know that spectives on the author’s famous use of this fireball and building-crumbling we can see with our concision and omission, and analyzes terror, hope is omnipresent throughout tongue? or that we how he created an entirely unpreccan plug our this book and adds an undeniable edented role for fictional dialogue, nervous system humanization to the work’s whole.” Dr. exploring his methods of characterizaoppenheimer, a professor at The city directly into a tion, and categorizing his settings in the college and The Graduate center of the computer? With city University of new york, is also the cybernetics, 53 stories that comprise his most author of the broadly-cited investigation prosthetics, robotics, nanotechnology important work in the genre. a major contribution to Hemingway of the origin of the sonnet in thirteenthand neuroscience altering the way we scholarship and to the study of modcentury italy, The Birth of the Modern perceive and experience space, the ernist fiction, Art Matters was honored Mind: Self, Consciousness and the Invention body has re-emerged as an important of the Sonnet. architectural site, revealing its astonishby the american library association in Times of Danger chair of Gumley Haft Kleier real estate brokers. She and her daughters—both executive vice presidents at GHK—are costars of HGTv’s hit real estate reality television series Selling New York. as “an outstanding academic Title for 2010” and called “essential, all readers” by Choice journal. a Life Beyond ideology, Paul Oppenheimer ’57 continuum, december 29, 2011 Horace mann magazine Winter 2012 47

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Horace Mann - Winter 2012
Contents
Letters
Greetings from Dr. Tom Kelly
Greetings from Melissa Parento ’90
Horace Mann School’s 125th Anniversary Observances Begin
Strategic Thinking
New Initiatives in Institutional Research and Admissions
HM's New Director of College Counseling
Timothy HO and Monica Merlo are 2011 Tina and Dave Bellet Teaching Excellence Award Winners
Langfan Oratorical Contest, 2011
Horace Mann School Graduates 178 in June, 2011
Alumni Council Corner
Bookshelf
Class Notes
Memorials
Philanthropy and You

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