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...metaphysical bent earned him a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and two terms as U.S. poet laureate; in New York City. He produced a dozen books over 75 years, culminating with last year's The Wild Braid, an homage to his lifelong passion of gardening. The longtime Columbia University professor hammered out dense, restrained gems on a manual typewriter, tackling both the personal (his father's suicide) and the universal (life, death, rebirth). "The deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once," he said, "and my conviction is to report that self-dialogue...
...metaphysical bent earned him a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and two terms as U.S. poet laureate; in New York City. He produced a dozen books over 75 years, culminating with last year's The Wild Braid, an homage to his lifelong passion of gardening. The longtime Columbia University professor hammered out dense, restrained gems on a manual typewriter, tackling both the personal (his father's suicide) and the universal (life, death, rebirth). "The deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once," he said, "and my conviction is to report that self-dialogue...
...Number of votes the District of Columbia would have in Congress under a bipartisan bill proposed in the House of Representatives last week; the district currently has only a nonvoting House delegate...
...College wants students to use the pass/fail option to take intellectual risks, then it should follow in the footsteps of Columbia and Dartmouth by making one minor change in the system: Once we’ve decided to make a class pass/fail, the College should give us one more chance to change our minds...
...What can Harvard do then to revive the original purpose behind the pass/fail option? The answer is simple: make pass/fail reversible. At Dartmouth and Columbia, pass/fail students get the opportunity at the end of the course to turn their Ps into grades, if they so desire...