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George Steiner, an internationally renowned scholar and literary critic , has been appointed the 2001-2002 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, the University announced this week...
...Norton lectureship, established in 1925, honors Harvard's first professor of fine arts. The Norton Chair is concerned with "all poetic expression" in areas such as music, language, fine arts, architecture and literature...
...position is one of the most prestigious lectureships in the nation. Past recipients have included Leonard Bernstein '39, e.e. cummings '15, T.S. Eliot '10, Robert Frost, Harold Bloom, Lionel Trilling, Jorge Luis Borges and Aaron Copeland. The most recent Norton Professor was musicologist Joseph W. Kerman, who lectured...
Worse still, all of Whitman's best "green" assets, particularly with regard for open space, are countered by a Secretary of the Interior (Gail Norton) who, according to one New York Times letter writer, has "pro-business views [that] make Christie Whitman look like John Muir." Her record on environmental issues is similarly murky, and there is evidence that, in her position as the attorney general of Colorado, Norton rejected the prosecution of a number of pollution cases which would have hurt business interests. Two of the largest lawsuits were subsequently pursued by private environmental groups and resulted...
With a number of crucial environmental issues looming on the horizon--the question of whether or not to drill for oil in Alaska, a revaluation of America's stance on Kyoto, the fate of millions of square miles of federal land in the West--Norton, Whitman and Bush's lukewarm support of the EPA may turn out to be every Sierra Club member's worst nightmare. It is good to see that Bush has made some sort of gesture with the diesel emission initiative and his support of the Clean Air Act. However, his pro-environment posturing will prove meaningless...