Word: butlering
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...horrified ‘No,’” Vendler wrote. Louise Glück, former poet laureate of the United States, told an audience at Harvard Hillel last night that she was encouraged as a young poet reading the unpolished works of poets like William Butler Yeats. Vendler’s assertions are not only being challenged by fellow poetry critics but by at least one member of her own English and American Literature Department. “I don’t believe that [an] author’s intentions are all that matters or that...
...Coke for their alleged human rights abuses in Colombia and India. Over 10 college campuses have already dropped Coke contracts over these allegations, including the University of Michigan and New York University. The demonstrators also targeted Harvard for allegedly trying to bust their employees’ union activities. Genevieve Butler, a three-year employee at Widener Library and member of the Harvard Union of Clerical & Technical Workers, said that she has been threatened by her bosses for her union activity. “When we come out in actions like this, it’s not what management wants...
DIED. OCTAVIA BUTLER, 58, novelist who was the first black woman to achieve major success in the white-male-dominated genre of science fiction; of head injuries from a fall; in Seattle, Wash. A loner and self-described "oil-and-water" mix of "ambition, laziness, insecurity [and] certainty," Butler subverted sci-fi stereotypes to tackle issues like racism and poverty in books like Kindred, the tale of a black woman who time-travels back to the antebellum South. In 1995, she became the only sci-fi writer ever to receive a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant...
...DIED. OCTAVIA BUTLER, 58, novelist who was the first black woman to achieve major success in the white-male-dominated genre of science-fiction; of head injuries from a fall; in Seattle, Washington. A loner and self-described "oil-and-water" mix of "ambition, laziness, insecurity [and] certainty," Butler subverted sci-fi stereotypes to tackle issues like racism and poverty in books like Kindred, the tale of a black woman who time-travels back to the antebellum South. In 1995, she became the only sci-fi writer ever to receive a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant...
...Larry Summers,” said one applicant, Jeff N. Fox, a senior at Randolph High School in New Jersey.“The professors are still the professors, the classes still the classes,” he added.An already-admitted member of the Class of 2010, Elena D. Butler, now a senior at San Francisco University High School, said in a phone interview that she and her friends “seemed to be way more focused on the academic reputation of Harvard than the media.”In a letter published in The New York Times...