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...Part memoir, part literary tutorial, the book begins with his recollections of Derek Walcott, a fellow Nobelist and West Indian writer whose first volume of poems was published in 1948. Naipaul came across it in 1955, while working part-time on a BBC radio program called Caribbean Voices. Although Naipaul says he broadcast everything Walcott submitted to the show, he also claims to have done so believing that "the first flush" of Walcott's inspiration had gone, and that the poet "was now marking time." Walcott's borrowing of Western European literary forms is peevishly dismissed as "falsifying...
...Derek M. Flanzraich ’10 lives in Currier House...
...smart people that understand our brand,” says college recruiter Josh R. Secrest, a 2004 Yale graduate. The smart sweeties that make it past the first-round interview will travel to A&F’s All-American, 400-acre campus in the woods of Ohio. As Derek Zoolander already copyrighted the “Walk-Off,” A&F has instead instituted the “Style-Out,” a grueling test in which interviewees choose the three hottest styles from a series of fashion designs and explain their picks. In the past...
...Following a year of temporary leadership by former president Derek C. Bok and former Faculty dean Jeremy R. Knowles, Faust asked her colleagues to forgive her and Michael D. Smith, the new dean of the Faculty, for their inexperience...
...wanted to say how we got there,” Rudenstine said of the speech. “Probably more like Derek Bok than Larry or Drew, I had in some sense lived through a lot of this history...