Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Professor of English Peter Sacks and Briggs-Copeland Lecturer Henri Cole--and poets living in the Boston area, like Derek Walcott, Frank Bidart and new Poet 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...
Kendra Lider-Johnson '98, who is also on the Advocate's poetry board, takes a more critical view of the state of poetry among the undergraduates. "We compete against each other to get into the classes. We compete against each other to get published," she says. (Admission to the Advocate's editorial boards is also a competitive process...
...Lider-Johnson says that the Advocate, founded in 1866 and the major publisher of poetry on campus, has become an institution, leading to an atmosphere not always congenial to new voices or to appreciation "without judging the work." Other younger campus publications such as Diversity & Distinction and Cellar Door also publish undergraduate poetry, but the Advocate remains the dominating voice of student poetry...
...engagingly curious open-mindedness of a true odologist, riding in state-patrol cruisers equipped with "three different sirens--wail, yelp and hi-lo"--and cross-examining moteliers and roadside philosophers at places like the Wes-T-Go Truck Stop outside Abilene, Texas, not so far from where Lee Johnson shows off a half-million-dollar motor coach that does 1,500 miles to a tank...
...Miami Dolphins (from Baltimore Ravens): Peter Boulware, DE, Florida State. Jimmy Johnson makes the major move up because he gets a Florida player who has great speed--and we all know JJ has a speed fetish. He helps a poor defensive line with his unbelievable quickness and athleticism. A bit small at 6'4", 254, but it hasn't mattered on the field to date...