Word: academia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gilchrist stresses, however, that he is definitely not a professional. "I don't intend to make a career out of it. Harvard doesn't train well for it anyway." The rigors of academia have certainly begun to take its toll on the wunderkid. He adds," When my roommate came to visit me this summer, we decided to play mini-golf. I was losing through the ninth hole." No longer burdened by the celebrity appearances, lucrative commercial endorsements and high-profile talk show guest shots, Gilchrist affirms that for now, mini-golf is but "a relaxing waste of time...
Koch's position here may partially explain thecritical indifference his work has met inmainstream academia: if he construes the critic'smain task as "finding meaning," and his own poetictask as "providing pleasure," Koch may simply bewriting a verse whose place is elsewhere; as hedefines the terms, he may have no desire to givethe critic anything to find. There is certainlynothing wrong with a poetry of the enjoyable,particularly given that Koch's stance is a rareone in contemporary American literature. Despitetheir flaws, his poems and his attitude can feellike a breath of fresh air, especially when theyare presented as winningly...
...York City--he hopes, apologizing for the brunch crowd that "couldn't get in at night"), McInerney rebuts the accusation that his life-style has hurt his prose. "There are a lot of people writing about quiet contemplative lives in the Midwest, a lot of people writing about academia and plenty of people writing about the suburbs," he says. "If I taught college in the Midwest, would I be a better writer? Would the world be a better place? I don't think so. Somebody's got to do what I do. It might as well be me." Continuing...
Hoping to highlight the "exciting,nontraditional choices available" to graduatessearching for opportunities outside of academia,Anderson plans to invite Harvard alums to leadcolloquia within the department, aiming both "toaid students in defining their career goals [and]to discuss both conventional and alternativecareer opportunities available to Ph.D. chemists...
...July 23 press briefing where heannounced his resignation, McCurry suggested hemight go into academia because he likesinteracting with students...