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Citing the critical link between culture and linguistic voice in poetic translations, Emerson Visiting Poet and 1995 Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney delivered a lecture entitled "Fretwork: On Translating Beowulf" last night to a full house in the Science Center...
...when we get inside a polling booth or fill out an absentee ballot, that vital democratic link is still there--the link that puts power in our hands and roots the legitimacy of the elected in the populace. My absentee vote for Bill Clinton was probably never even counted in 1996. But when I see or hear or read about him, I think of the Clinton Presidency as an institution I helped create...
...budding impeachment inquiry is threatening that link and there's little I can do to stop it. It is as though an old, rusty train has ground into motion and is pulling out of the shed where it has been stored since 1974. Newt Gingrich and Henry Hyde are there, one the conductor, the other the engineer. Barney Frank and Robert Wexler are inside one of the cars, waving at us through the cloudy windows. And we, the people, are standing in the weeds by the track, watching as the train chugs along across the land, toward an unknown destiny...
Today, too, our judgment of Clinton must deal not only with him as a man but with the link between the presidency and the people. I don't want the President to stay, as Clinton likes to say, to "do the job we elected him to do." I don't believe he is capable of doing that job any longer. I want him to stay because I helped elect him to do that job, and no other power, in the absence of necessity, should freely choose to invalidate my vote. The people's hold on power is too tenuous...
...link between science and literature is what makes the course different from most English classes, Guillory said. It explores topics including magic and science, the status of poetry and rhetoric in science, the distinction between matter and spirit, and the political and social interests of scientific writing...