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Just as you have to pity people who don't know how to type, you sort of have to pity people who, when graduating, have no interest in going into law, medicine, academia, public service or business. The vast majority of Harvard graduates in recent years have taken one of these five paths. These are obviously great choices if one wants to be a lawyer, doctor, scholar, civil servant or financier. But for hundreds of undecided students, choosing one of these five options is a lot like getting stuck with the least efficient keyboard in the world. What makes them...
What prompted Waller to decorate this way? "I always have a lot of friends come over and I need a comfortable place away from academia," he says. But why do several rows of square mirrors panel the walls surrounding the bed? "The mirrors make [it] look bigger." Do they...
Still, I'm told there was a time when academia stood apart from popular currents and evaluated them from a critical perspective. It is a great loss to today's undergraduates that our teachers are no longer critics but, instead, are the most zealous flag-bearers of prevailing social trends...
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...