Word: bating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walter Jackson Bate, chairman of the English department yesterday, called Garber "one of the most famous teachers of literature in the country and an inspiring lecturer." He added that she would teach a graduate course on teaching literature...
Walter Jackson Bate '39, Lowell Professor of the Humanities and chairman of the Core subcommittee on Literature and the Arts, thinks the standing committee in the past has been "awfully strict and literal" in its interpretation and enforcement of the Core guidelines. However, he says that now, since the standing committee has approved nearly 100 courses, it may loosen up. "The subcommittees are being encouraged to widen the variety and types of courses they recommend. Now we're taking the wraps off, and it's about time," he says, adding that he can envision the Core soon including broader, survey...
Hyperintellectuality is the taproot of his paralysis, an acute self-consciousness and an encyclopedic, even frightening, knowledge of what has already been done in the theater and what little there is that remains to be done. Leib masterfully limns what W.J. Bate has pithily called "the burden of the past" with a virtuoso monologue in which Terry splices memorized quotations from a drama anthology while Wheeler, a translator, punctuates with footnotes. Terry declaims wildly and Wheeler answers, "Hedda Gabler--I think the Reinert translation," launching Terry into another recitation, from another play, which logically follows in the train of conversation...