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...People can't go to college because they can't afford it. It's a class issue now," she says. "A lot of students aren't making decisions based on what they want, they choose their career path based on income, not merit...
...they bought a piece of art, and they haven't, which is condescending. It's a bad joke," says Morris. "I don't want to knock the guy personally. He does his thing, and that's fine." But showing his work at the Paley legitimizes something that "has no merit" while "serious artists" get no such stage...
Such a volume is, if nothing else, an indication of Stevens' assured legacy in the development of American poetry. A figure of such enduring merit, the argument goes, must merit a reading of all his works: not just the poetry, but also plays, lectures, notes, correspondence. The heretofore definitive Opus Posthumous was first published by Knopf two years after Stevens' death in 1955; the most recent edition contains nearly all of the poems found in the new compendium, including those not incorporated in Stevens' volumes. Collected Poetry and Prose assembles seven volumes of poetry released between 1923 and 1955, Stevens...
Shakespeare's treatment of history can be excused both by his time period and by his artistic merit. The practice (not to mention conception) of history was quite different in Shakespeare's time than our own. Even in "history" writing, very different standards were applied. Pocahontas and Anastasia, however, must answer to our own contemporary standards of historical veracity...
...Some [of the possibilities] have a lot of merit, and some are based on a misunderstanding of what would be for the betterment of undergraduates," said Noah R. Freeman '99, an undergraduate member of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) who sat in on the Council meeting...