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...There’s a lot of back and forth.” The poetry of Wordsworth, one of her inspirations, was featured next to her watercolor representations of the countryside. She feels connected to Wordsworth’s poetry because, although Breeden uses a different medium, they both are inspired by the English countryside and convey it through their work. Sifuentes’ concept opened up new doors of inspiration for Adams House government, religion, and race relations residential tutor Barrett-Osahar Berry, who is both a poet and a photographer. Berry’s photographs of his recent...
...Collected Stories” was a Pulitzer finalist—and as a political activist. Yet she began her career as a poet, studying under W.H. Auden as a young adult. Here, at the end of her life, Paley makes a final return to poetry, and the medium seems appropriate to her task. In her hands, the ability of poetry to distill itself into one thought or one emotion becomes a powerful tool; her thoughts, stripped of the context or fictitious garnish that would mask them in a short story, become uncompromisingly honest.Although simplicity is a key component...
...with the story of a clay duck. In the hypothetical, he wishes to make a clay duck but finds that he lacks the dexterity to replicate the form he had imagined. Instead, he ends up with a frog. “I don’t want the medium to manipulate me,” he says.Yet the actual ability to produce artwork is a large part of the reason artists are traditionally so admired. Grand statements such as “If you can see something you can make it,” “I believe...
...signs of an industry in transition. Of course, traditional media must struggle to adapt in face of new competition from other sources. Indeed, reporting in radio has survived; the painful period of transition simply made the size of journalistic radio proportional to the percentage of people who utilized the medium after the advent of television...
...Education, revealed that just 1 percent of college leaders polled feel their board members are sufficiently well-versed in the basics of fundraising. A previous survey from 1997-1998 concluded that 13 percent of trustees were considered to have the necessary knowledge. The survey respondents included 274 small or medium-sized independent schools—mostly liberal arts colleges, according to survey editor Wesley K. Willmer, who is also vice president of advancement at Biola University in California. The survey tracked advancement trends among colleges with enrollments under 5,000. It found that administrations were often frustrated by the shortcomings...