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...starts by focusing on the few important issues that will come to define their tenure. Even with 50-odd uncompleted promises, three big victories would constitute a successful year at the helm of the UC.Petersen and Sundquist have wasted little time with pleasantries and have hit the ground running. The UC opened a promised teaching hotline where students can e-mail concerns about their teaching fellows (TFs) one week after Petersen’s inauguration . Crimson Reading, a Web site co-founded by Hadfield that allows students to compare textbook prices, has been adopted by the UC, updated...
...theater at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center is an old ballroom that gets better with altitude. On the ground, a linoleum floor and interlocking gray wall panels seem like they belong in a middle school cafeteria. Yet the lavishly decorated ceiling, rich with blue and green paint, seems to have avoided any kind of unnecessary municipal “improvement” over the years...
...devoted teachers have long been underappreciated, underpaid, and only rarely tenured. That the most recent Task Force’s report highlights ways in which a middle ground between excellence in research and commitment to instruction might be achieved is to be applauded...
...dreams and ambitions stripped away by domesticity, spirits and personalities quailed by marriage, energy suppressed and freedom thwarted by maternity—are trite contemporary fodder. But to give her credit, Cusk redeems these stale themes with exquisite language and is on aesthetic high ground, safe from criticism of low-brow unoriginality.Cusk’s words are so lovely that they make the tongue itch; it’s hard to resist the temptation to read all 248 pages out loud. The lush descriptions of Arlington Park and its residents seem to enter the transcendent realm of poetry.Unfortunately, eloquence...
...wrote about dead prostitutes in the street. Trachtenberg’s Whitman is a complex figure, less important as a poet than as a witness to his flawed culture. Trachtenberg’s work is difficult for even the most advanced college reader. He doesn’t always ground the critics and artists he references—names and ideas float in and out of essays. This refusal to contextualize the critics he engages with could be a conscious choice—the names are not as important to Trachtenberg as the ideas being expressed?...