CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 29, 2006 |
Alexander B. "Sandy" Trowbridge, 76, a Commerce secretary during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration who spent a decade as president of the influential National Assn. of Manufacturers, died Thursday at his home in Washington. His family said he had suffered from Lewy body disease, a brain disorder combining some of the most debilitating characteristics of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
June 18, 1987 |
Paul Auster seems like such a stable, engaging man, not at all the type to be afflicted by the stuff of bad dreams. The 40-year-old novelist, who teaches creative writing at Princeton University, talks of his happy marriage. He has a 9-year-old son, Daniel, whom he clearly adores. He's eagerly awaiting the birth of his second child just weeks from now. And he recently bought a small apartment for his family in Brooklyn. He is also the kind of person who practices small niceties.
March 16, 1997 |
I spent much of the mid-1980s hanging around one great Mediterranean seaport and much of the mid-1990s hanging around another, and I can't help comparing the two. Both were powers of medieval Europe; both have large, often mysterious medieval quarters. Both boast impressive architecture and art collections; both have their own language, or at least dialect--part of a cultural identity setting them apart from the modern nations to which they have become attached. Those are the similarities.