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...senior thesis and rejection from the GSAS, Ashbery returned to Cambridge in 1989 as Norton Professor of Poetry, a position he retained until 1990. The Norton professorship is one of the country's most prominent guest lectureships: Ashbery was following in the footsteps of such literary luminaries as Harold Bloom, Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, Robert Frost, and Thornton Wilder, as well as fellow graduates like Eliot and cummings...
...work in their Land Rovers and Cherokees, the walls are festooned with posters boosting the values of good character. This month's value is Helpfulness. So as the caregivers diaper and burp their gurgling little charges, the infants stare up at a sign that reads THE SEEDS OF HELPFULNESS BLOOM EARLY...
...only trouble is, if anyone's losing touch, it's me. The most striking thing about our culture, to an outsider today, may be that Harold Bloom's 745-page scholarly exegesis of Shakespeare's plays is on the best-seller list (joining a history of the makers of the Oxford English Dictionary), and an updated version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses is at the cineplex. In certain respects the country around us seems to be dumbing up, presenting us on a daily basis with texts and thoughts that give no indication of a nation suffering from attention deficit disorder...
...allusive moment, Rushdie closed the reading with a passage that reprised Molly Bloom's monologue at the end of James Joyce's "Ulysses...
...allusive moment, Rushdie closed the reading with a passage that reprised Molly Bloom's monologue at the end of James Joyce's "Ulysses...