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When Emily Dickinson corresponded with her lover, a married man, she made every letter count. Today, the art of letter writing has been reduced to the dregs of sub-standard English found in e-mail. Even grade A Harvard scribes tend to regress on the Internet, thanks to the College's most tried and true teaching method: Pavlovian conditioning...
...less is more. It seems now is the crucial time to question what traditional values are being washed away as we surf to tomorrow on the World Wide Web. Will vacuous banter on chat lines and bulletin boards take the place of witty correpsondence? Is cybersex capable of replacing Dickinson's love letters? Somehow "http://www.webromance.com/" just doesn't sound the same...
Kemp represents inclusion, compassion and ideas. Together, Dole and Kemp represent victory, and will send Clinton and Gore packing. GERRY DICKINSON Mount Pleasant, South Carolina...
...article in the Boston Globe on Nov. 24 indicated that Melinda T. Koyanis, copyright-and-permissions manager for the Harvard University Press, made a statement to The Crimson about my manuscript, Poetic Work of Emily Dickinson: A Readers' Text. I quote: "Koyanis told The Harvard Crimson that the professor's understanding of the poet was 'inaccurate' and that 'even [his] word choice was wrong...
Funny that a textual scholar of national standing and a leading authority on Dickinson should both overlook problems as fundamental as an inaccurate understanding of the poet and mistaken "word choice" on my part...