Word: interestedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In recent years, Harvard's creative writing program has been gaining momentum. The spring semester information meeting for those interested in applying to classes almost filled Emerson 105. Before the Faculty even began their presentation, the editor of the Dudley House Review announced that those students who didn't get...
Many more students than the number applying are actually interested in the courses; when full, Emerson 105, where the intro meeting was held, seats about 300. With the informational meeting one day and the application deadline the next, novice writers with not enough time to write the samples most instructors...
At Harvard, the lack of commitment to the creative writing program and its Faculty reflects the College's indifference to the subject and to the students interested in it. A well-rounded education should not just be about studying other people's work--it should involve creating your own.
The administration, by contrast, is interested in many things, but which all fall, more or less, into two (unordered) categories: preserving the Harvard name and reputation and raising money, lots and lots of money.
Think Hollywood is too corporate these days? It's just getting started. Last week publicity powerhouse PMK (which handles names like CRUISE, PFEIFFER, HANKS and DAMON) finally consented to marry McCann-Erickson (clients include GM, MasterCard and Coca-Cola). The New York ad giant was not so much interested in...