Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cultural life during the twentieth century, Spender tells of a poets' conference he attended at Harvard during the early '50s. To a full auditorium, Randall Jarrell lamented the obscurity of poets in modern society. Spender, as a foreigner and member of the audience, wondered why Jarrell chose to address this complaint to an adoring crowd. Gradually he realized that Jarrell was attacking elitism...
...faculty members be willing to spend at least half of their time teaching, and half of that time teaching undergraduates, as Rosovsky suggests. No task force report will be able to compel faculty members to devote time to undergraduates, but Rosovsky's message is a much-needed attempt to address questions of instruction that overshadow talk of requirements and curriculum...
...outstanding characteristic of this poetry is its universality: the poets address broad philosophical, emotional, and social concerns. Their Arabic heritage obviously has shaped their perception, yet the difference in perspective does not detract from, and in fact enhances the Western reader's experience...
...Although nothing substantive was decided at the first of the informal sessions-and though fixing a date would not get to the heart of those issues blocking a transfer of power-Richard at least got the delegation heads to sit literally elbow to elbow around a circular table and address each other directly. With more informal meetings to follow, the Geneva Conference had been kept on track...
APPLICANT, YOUNGEST--The admissions office reports that every so often they receive letters from eight-year-old toddlers asking "permission" to come to Harvard. Children write these letters and ask their parents to send them off to the proper address. Last year during Commencement season, a woman accompanying her husband to his tenth class reunion at Harvard became so enamored of the place that she decided the school would be ideal for her child. Marching into the admissions office, she asked for an application for her child...