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...really not that interesting and hence have nothing to say (words of advice: just make something up). Anyhow, as we’re all playing the fun-fact game, the TF finally looks to me. As I begin my introduction, “Hi, my name is Cather...” I suddenly get cut off by a friend in the class. “No, call her...ha...call her Dirty Cathy...
Sarah K. Bourne ’08, a biology concentrator in Quincy House, had planned to take Buell’s Literature and Arts course this semester, both because she was attracted by the syllabus—which included books by Willa Cather, Adlo Leopold, and Henry David Thoreau—and because Buell is one of the highest-rated Core instructors in the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) guide...
Like Taymor's theater work, Zimmerman's harks back to these innocent, childlike reactions. "I'm from Nebraska, and Willa Cather is the great Nebraska author whom I've ignored until this age," she says. "But in [Cather's] Song of the Lark, there's a character who says she will never be the artist she was as a child. I have very much that same feeling: that the ability to take something banal or simple and make it into something else is a skill that is in the realm of childhood...
...last half-century, Eliot (George, not T.S.), Hardy, Henry James, Zola, Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac, Twain, Melville, Trollope, Tennyson and countless others have been busy penning new works. And with the arrival of the 1900s, our well-travelled Rudolph will soon be able to read new works by Dreiser, Cather, Wharton and Kipling--and then Lawrence, Woolf, Joyce, and eventually Paris's own bard of the boulevards, Marcel Proust...
...donor purchased Willa Cather's My Antonia and Lucy Gayheart, Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Grace Paley's The Little Disturbances of Man, and The Portable Dorothy by Dorothy Parker for $10,000 at Christie's auction house in October...