Word: auden
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...Commencement edition, I noticed an error which I'd like to correct! In Sarah Scrogin's story on Class Day ("Class Day Speeches Remember, Look Forward," news story, June 8, 1995), she makes reference to Clark Dean's address. She writes, "Dean referred to a poem by W.H. Auden titled 'Icarus' which he learned about in Gen Ed 105: The Literature of Social Reflection...
Actually, Clark was speaking of Auden's poem, 'Musee des Beaux Arts." "Icarus" is the title of the Breughel painting, the inspiration behind Auden's words. It's a wonderful poem. Christina S. Griffith Assistant Dean of Freshman and General Education 105 Teaching Assistant
Dean's address focused on the importance of fostering a sense of students and faculty learn to pay attention toone another's successes and failures. Deanreferred to a poem by W. H. Auden titledIcarus which he learned about in Gen Ed105; The Literature of Social Reflection...
...play that holds up beautifully not only on the stage but on the page. When Thomasina, hungry for a new mathematics, exclaims, "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell," we might have stepped into an Auden poem. When a formidable lady silences her brother by snapping, "Do not dabble in paradox, Edward, it puts you in danger of fortuitous wit," we can hear Wilde whispering, "I wish I'd said that." And for concentrated lyricism, the scene in which Thomasina bewails the burning of the classical...
...took more than 20 years, but after six successful books and numerous articles by and about him, neurologist Oliver Sacks, 61, has arrived (all 210 burly pounds of him) as the latest two-cultures hero, a man of science as well as a man of letters. W.H. Auden detected the budding synthesis in Sacks' work in the early 1970s, when he declared Sacks' book Awakenings a masterpiece of medical literature. Hollywood grasped this high concept two decades later. Awakenings, the movie, starred Robin Williams as the dedicated doctor and Robert DeNiro as a patient temporarily freed from years of catatonia...