Word: heaney
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...Lower Common Room boasts an enormous organ and a framed document signed by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. The Adams House Pool The ater is easily the best theater in any House and the Cronauer space, though dank and bug-infested, offers a space for some interesting artistic fare (it is where the Dancing Deviant recently did his thing). On top of these places, Adams provides an active printing press, squash courts recently converted into an art gallery and, of course, the intriguingly decorated tunnels walls. That, as Marty Feldstein would say, is infrastructure...
...Laureate Robert Pinsky. Harvard also boasts such nationally acclaimed critics as Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler and Fredric Wertham professor Barbara Johnson. And the university's Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, a position often held by practicing poets, is presently occupied by recent Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney...
However, the Harvard name is extremely alluring; and as a result, the Harvard Faculty has several professors who one seems to see and read everywhere: in bookstores, major magazines, newspapers or the list of Nobel laureates. The superstar professors, so to speak, include: Seamus Heaney, Alan Dershowitz, Helen Vendler, Stephen J. Gould and Henry Louis Gates...
...Heaney, who is away in Ireland on a leave of absence, could not be reached for comment...
Members of the English department were excited by the news that Heaney won the award...