Word: menand
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...Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, another member of the Committee on General Education, said there is a very good chance the proposals for an overhaul of the Core will fall through...
...reference to Bok’s preference for more carefully delineated categories of courses, Menand pointed out that when Bok started to develop the idea for the Core in the early 70s, it was a very different...
...though some who attended the reception were quick to note which faculty members had and had not been invited. The English and American Literature and Language Department was well represented last night, with appearances by James Engell, the department chair; Stephen J. Greenblatt, the Cogan University professor; and Louis Menand, the Bass professor of English. On Summers’ academic side of the aisle were Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, the Lee and Allison professors of economics. The pair are on leave this academic year. Most professors, however, were not invited to the reception of roughly 150 guests...
...designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial while a senior at Yale, Lin’s landscape and site-specific works create elegant, provocative structures out of unconventional materials and unexpected settings. “Your artwork is considered serene and harmonious. Are you a serene person?” Menand asked at one point.Lin laughed. “I’m hysterical. I’m probably one of the most insecure people you could ever possibly meet.”Lin struck a balance in her remarks between demure and provocative, equivocating on some points?...
...Menand praised Schuker’s performance both inside and outside of the classroom. “Lauren is not just incredibly smart and well-read and resourceful; she’s fun, one of the funnest people at Harvard, or anywhere else I’ve worked,” he wrote in an e-mail...