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...anything, the department could play a prominent part in the big picture of bringing Americans together in tough times. Some days it seems this country has a problem solving social problems, and part of that is because many Americans from different backgrounds don’t recognize the importance of each other’s contributions to American vitality and well being. It might be a special mission of the department to put Americans more in touch with one another in times where we need more trust and solidarity...
It’s a shame cultural policy is not perceived as “real” public policy. As Americans, we have a responsibility for both stewardship of our heritage and the welfare of our posterity—in both material and immaterial terms. At the heart of American culture has always been a special knack for innovation in challenging circumstances. It is entirely appropriate that we should now consider jazzing up our institutions and investing in our best, brightest, and most beautiful to aid in national recovery...
...presentation, hosted by the Cambridge Public Library’s ‘Cambridge READS’ program and sponsored by the Harvard Bookstore and Porter Square Books, featured a conversation between Gates, a professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies, and Callie Crossley, national media commentator and public speaker...
...really touched by the passages he read and how he got very emotional,” said audience member Meredith C. Woods ’83. “As an African American, his book really speaks to me and my own cultural experience. It is so important because it speaks to a lot of people’s American experience no matter what ethnicity you are touching...
Merwin won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, in both 1971 and 2009. He also won the Tanning Prize, one of the highest honors bestowed by the Academy of American Poets...