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...casket had the words "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" inscribed on it, then of course it was a fake. The English language didn't even exist yet, so what's all the hullabaloo about? But seriously, I wish you had said more about the inscription - for example, which language it was in or what the actual words were, transcribed into our alphabet. Eila Kolu, KITEE, FINLAND...
...question the book raises is how much inhumanity is justified in the cultivation of a talent--especially in an age when (as Naipaul is shrewd enough to realize) writers are judged on the basis of their personality more than their art. Even as he turned himself into a bespoke English gentleman, after all, while Pat became the obedient and self-denying Indian wife of legend, Naipaul's strength lay not just in the clarity of his observations but in the passion--the grief and terror and rage--that trembled just beneath them. When Pat finally died, in 1996, French tells...
...English department overwhelmingly approved the largest overhaul of its undergraduate concentration in over 20 years on Tuesday afternoon. The new program would sweep away all the current requirements except Shakespeare and replace them with four subject areas or “affinity groups...
...Under the proposal, the required courses English 10a and 10b—as well as the pre-1800 literature, American literature, and sophomore seminar requirements—would...
...categories—“Arrivals,” “Poets,” “Diffusions,” and “Shakespeares”—would interweave literary history with textual analysis. At a gathering for prospective concentrators on Tuesday, English professor Stephen J. Greenblatt said that these courses will most likely be small seminars...