Margalit Fox's Blog, page 22
September 1, 2015
Blondell Cummings, Dancer of Life’s Everyday Details, Dies at 70
Ms. Cummings danced on prominent stages and created works that embraced multiple disciplines.
August 29, 2015
George Cleve, Conductor Who Interpreted Mozart, Dies at 79
Mr. Cleve, who was born in Vienna, fled with his family to the United States and spent most of his American career on the West Coast.
August 26, 2015
Amelia Boynton Robinson, a Pivotal Figure at the Selma March, Dies at 104
Images of Mrs. Boynton Robinson being left for dead by the police during the march in 1965 were seen worldwide and played a part in winning popular support for the Voting Rights Act.
August 22, 2015
Svetlana Boym, 56, Scholar of Myth and Memory, Dies
Ms. Boym, a Harvard professor who emigrated from the Soviet Union in her 20s, wrote of two types of nostalgia, one that clings to the past and another that realizes it is gone.
August 21, 2015
Svetlana Boym, Scholar of Myth and Memory, Dies at 56
Ms. Boym, a Harvard professor who emigrated from the Soviet Union in her 20s, wrote of two types of nostalgia, one that clings to the past and another that realizes it is gone.
August 20, 2015
George Houser, Freedom Rides Pioneer and a Founder of CORE, Dies at 99
The Rev. Houser was a Methodist minister whose contributions to the civil rights movement went largely unheralded.
George Houser, Freedom Rides Pioneer, Dies at 99
The Rev. Houser was a Methodist minister whose contributions to the civil rights movement went largely unheralded.
August 19, 2015
William Jay Smith, Poet and Craftsman of Rhythm, Dies at 97
Mr. Smith, whose work was praised for its lyrical diction and deceptive simplicity, was the author of many volumes of poems, as well as criticism, memoirs, translations and children’s verse.
August 18, 2015
Howard Brody, an Expert in the Physics of Tennis, Dies at 83
Professor Brody began his professional life as a particle physicist before a chance encounter in the 1970s caused him to train his eye on tennis.
August 14, 2015
Edward Thomas, Policing Pioneer Who Wore a Burden Stoically, Dies at 95
The first African-American to build a career with the Houston Police Department could not walk through the front door when he reported for work in 1948. Now Police Headquarters is named for him.
