Word: books
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...initiates of the press is Sarah Hulsey '01. Hulsey is a Linguistics concentrator, but she has always been attracted to the art of books. When she was a child, her mother used to entertain her by sewing pages together on a sewing machine. Hulsey's current projects, however, are much more advanced. She is collaborating this semester with poet Susannah Hollister '01 in creating a broadside of poems. In the spring, armed with a grant from the OFA, they will also print a book of ten to twelve of Hollister's poems in an edition of about fifty copies...
...Hulsey is deadly serious about her work. She feels that, because the experience of reading is affected by what the page looks like, the process of printing a book is deeply collaborative. The poet's choices and the printer's choices run across a hazy boundary, each fundamentally changing the finished product. Hollister's choice of a stanza break is determined by Hulsey's choices of physical spacing...
Noguera is the author of the book The Imperatives of Power: Political Change and the Social Basis of Regime Support in Grenada (1997), an offshoot from his doctoral work...
...would think of a student who showed up as a pre-frosh and asked when the last time you were up late struggling with Wittgenstein's theories of games or Weber's predictions for the future of civilization--not just writing a response paper after skimming half the book, but really considering the challenges posed by these thinkers. Imagine if they asked if the triumphs and catastrophes, big and small, we face every day, even if we rush by and pretend not to see them, grabbed you with a thought and would not let go. What would...
...trial that was based on defendant Loyd Jowers' six-year-old claim to a TV reporter that he paid someone (not James Earl Ray) to kill King is a little suspect, especially since he didn't testify at his trial and may have simply been plugging a planned book on the assassination...