Word: londa
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...writer, and thinker. Lewis, who studied as a graduate student at Harvard from 1982-1983, originally wanted to return to the University to work on an epic poem titled “A Hospital Odyssey.” But she found herself embarking upon her position as the Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow having unexpectedly completed most of the work on the poem.“I confessed all to the Radcliffe people and they didn’t mind,” she says.As a result, Lewis has been able to take advantage of the diversity and breadth available...
...Humanities. Throughout the talk, Lewis explored the association between sadness and poetry. “What distinguishes poets from the rest of society is that they offer themselves to a state of mind that usually only monks do,” said Lewis, who is the Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute this year. “The poet’s value to society lies in her resilience in the face of dread and her ability to develop something controlled and forceful out of her experiences with that dread.” Lewis also asserted that...
...Though he did shepherd several now-prominent black and female scholars through their dissertation processes, former student Londa L. Schiebinger—now a professor at Stanford University—said that his politics came in the way while he advised her doctoral dissertation...
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