Word: macdiarmid
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...first annual Stephen D. MacDiarmid Band Award was presented to Lisa Hirschorn '81 by Edith MacDiarmid, the late student's mother...
Most students said theses were the culmination of their academic career. Steven MacDiarmid '77 described his 137-page government thesis as "the only thing I have to show for my education...
...people with its own language, democratic tradition and legal system, but without so much as a single self-governing political body. "We have an entire nation that has been submerged into believing it is inferior," says Author Robert Shirley, 46, of Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University. Recalls Hugh MacDiarmid, the country's greatest living poet: "When I was in school, you were punished if you lapsed into the Scots dialect. You were never taught much more about your own country than, of course, what a great thing it was to have been handed over to the greater glory...
...some time to come-if ever-Scottish nationalism is being discussed, in this most empirical and skeptical of countries, as Scotland's first significant political movement of the past 50 years. At the very least, the movement has revitalized the Scots' sense of their own uniqueness. Poet MacDiarmid recalls a statement by Robert Louis Stevenson that "there are no adjacent peoples in the world so utterly and inalterably opposed to each other as the Scots and the English." To MacDiarmid the lesson to be drawn from Stevenson's insight is this: "All I want...
...life, a tempting, a touching of all the boundaries..." No one, of course, can take risks who doesn't know the rules, but what is perhaps most impressive about John Berryman is his unwillingness to define expertise in purely technical terms. In a review of Hugh MacDiarmid he once wrote "a poet is to prove that he is not squeamish, as a poet (his private attitudes being nothing), by being absolutely responsible for his material and its psychological and spiritual employment, while technically he is absolutely independent of both. Flourishes will not do at all." Check...