Word: gioia
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...literacy, critics attacked the agency for publicizing "alarming national survey results." Evidently the NEA views its latest report as a validation of its efforts. "Our belief, then and now, was that the first step towards solving a problem was to identify and understand it," the agency's chairman, Dana Gioia, says in the report's preface. One of the most significant areas of progress involves the reading habits of young adults (ages 18-24), who went from a 20% decline in literary reading in 2002 to a 21% percent increase in 2008. "We note their progress with particular satisfaction," Gioia...
...latest survey, the NEA's chairman asks the obvious follow-up: "What happened in the past six years to revitalize American literary reading?" His answer is disappointing: "There is no statistical answer to this question." Not one to let the absence of facts spoil a good story, Gioia then goes on to propose that perhaps the sheer volume of electronic entertainment and communication we're exposed to has created a backlash of sorts, prompting a reading renaissance. But as L.A. Times reporter Carolyn Kellogg points out, is it really accurate to consider laptops as "anti-literature?" Might the Internet...
...Cultural decline is not inevitable," Gioia concludes. "While we cannot be complacent, we can surely pause to celebrate our common success." Unfortunately, that self-congratulatory tone spoils the entire report and overshadows its larger point - that more Americans reading is a good thing, regardless of whether the NEA made them...
...next hearing is currently scheduled for March 31. If he pleads not guilty, the case will go to trial where he could face a maximum sentence of two years in prison, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office. Wu’s lawyer Randolph Gioia, however, remains optimistic about his client’s future. “He just wants to put this behind him and continue his life at Harvard,” Gioia said. Secretary to the Administrative Board Jay L. Ellison declined to comment. —Staff writer Sophie M. Alexander...
...going to love poetry when they get back to it." As that last statement suggests, Barr has a tendency to express himself in marketingspeak, which may irritate his critics as much as the actual content of what he's saying. "It's easy for an academic to attack him," Gioia says, "because he's not talking in the elegant patois of the English department. But he has enormous practical capabilities...