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Leland, who currently teaches at Bennington College in Vermont, said in a telephone interview Saturday that the rough draft of his first comic novel took him only six weeks to write. Leland, who started the book in the spring of 1988, at the end of his lectureship at Harvard, said the story "told itself...
...should Infinite in All Directions, even though it is a revised version of a series of academic talks delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 1985 and hence an unlikely candidate for popular appeal. But Dyson is not the first person to turn a Gifford lectureship in Scotland into a book; other products of this prestigious assignment include William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience and Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality. Anyone would be daunted by such illustrious predecessors, including Dyson: "Confronted with the fact that I was not William James or Alfred Whitehead, I decided to make...
President Bok, who introduced the former Harvard professor and dean of the Graduate School of Education, called Moynihan "a very fitting representative" to speak on the lectureship topic of "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen." Bok said Moynihan has "remained a detatched observer, an academic trying to make some larger sense" of the political world...
...first Lectureship was awarded to Flora Lewis of the New York Times in 1982, and in 1983 the speaker was Norman Kempster of the Los Angeles Times...
...will meet with current Nieman fellows and creators of the Morris Lectureship this evening...