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This argument is established early in Birthday Letters, when Hughes records meeting Plath, a Fulbright scholar, at Cambridge University in 1956: "I was being auditioned/ For the male lead in your drama." A tempestuous courtship soon gives way to an equally stormy marriage: two ambitious poets--one English and reserved, the other American and outwardly exuberant but secretly troubled--yoked together in an initial ecstasy that eventually subsides into mutual misery. Hughes, in his telling, learns that Plath has brought problems along with her "long, perfect, American legs." He becomes acquainted with her "homicidal/ Hooded stare," her "dybbuk fury...
Officially, Lindsey is the No. 2 lawyer in the White House counsel's office. He first met Clinton in 1968 when they both worked in the office of Arkansas Senator William Fulbright. Lindsey attended law school at Georgetown and eventually returned to Little Rock. When Clinton failed to win re-election as Governor in 1980, he joined Lindsey's firm. They remained close after Clinton returned to office, and in the early days of the 1992 presidential campaign, it was just the two of them trekking the country, seeking support for Clinton's candidacy. Lindsey has remained at Clinton...
...contrast, Verba said that GSAS students have traditionally applied for a graduate student version of the Fulbright scholarship and for fellowships which specifically allow for dissertation research. She said more than 30 GSAS students applied this year for the Fulbright award...
While also interested in applying for the Fulbright, she was ineligible for the scholarship because she is Canadian and the award is only given to American students...
Brustein then decided to pursue a Ph.D in Jacobian Drama at Columbia. During this time, he travelled to England on a Fulbright Scholarship where he directed and began work as a critic...