Chaya Bhuvaneswar Remembers the Renowned Writer and Influential Mentor
February 4, 2021
Love is obstinate more than patient or kind. That fact more than anything is what I learned from the writer Ved Mehta.
We met when I was a freshman and signed up for his writing class. We sat in a basement conference room while a quietly-stoned classmate made funny faces, mocking Ved’s blindness. Though Ved and I never spoke of it, I think he knew fully what was happening. Yet his composure never faltered, and he had an effective way of letting the silence gave way to serious talk. He had a somehow watchful presence when students read their work, sometimes even remarking on their physical features to me later (“Is that one a dancer? I would have thought so. She’s graceful and small.”). I don’t know how much he even believed in the concept of “workshopping” anything, except he managed to create a sense of pleasant suspense in the room. Reading our pieces, it mattered to us what h
Obituary: Christopher P. Monkhouse
BRUNSWICK - Christopher P. Monkhouse, 73, the former chair of the European decorative arts department at the Art Institute of Chicago, .
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BRUNSWICK – Christopher P. Monkhouse, 73, the former chair of the European decorative arts department at the Art Institute of Chicago, died peacefully on Jan. 12, 2021 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House, Scarborough. The cause of death was a stroke.
Born in Portland on April 2, 1947, Christopher was the son of William A. Monkhouse, M.D., and Agnes Pruyn Linder Monkhouse. He attended Waynflete School, graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1965, and in 1966 studied English country houses at Attingham Summer School, Shropshire, England.