Word: essays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ESSAY...
...addition to the information on College race programs, the booklet will include an introductory essay written by Epps, an essay on College race relations written by Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Mars C. Waters, and President Neil L. Rudenstine's 1992 Commencement speech on freedom of speech, racial diversity and "living together...
...years ago, when Dana Gioia published the title essay to his collection Can Poetry Matter? in the Atlantic Monthly, he caused nothing short of a literary scandal. The Atlantic received more mail than it had in years. Publications as far flung as the Times Literary Supplement and USA Today printed spin-off discussions. Even international radio stations picked up the story. All this over an evaluation of contemporary verse...
Gioia presents the academy as a comfortable, clubby home to poets, and poetry as a "modestly upwardly mobile, middle class profession--not as lucrative as waste management or dermatology, but several big steps above the squalor of bohemia." With lines like these, is it any wonder the title essay caused such a stir...
...ESSAY...