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...Philip Roth, however, is one of the literary masters most attentive to the body. He has written lovingly about its lusts (Portnoy's Complaint), its decrepitude (The Dying Animal) and the intersection of the two (a ribald graveside scene in Sabbath's Theater). In his slim, stark novel Everyman (Houghton Mifflin; 182 pages), about the life and (mostly) death of an unnamed adman, Roth plays the body's trump card: someday it will die and take the mind with...
...letter, dated May 1, also touched on an issue that sparked controversy at Tuesday’s meeting of the full Faculty, which saw three professors criticize the current system of student course evaluations administered by the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE). At the meeting, Philip J. Fisher, the Reid professor of English and American literature, said he “learned nothing” from the online evaluations he received last fall...
...Film Villain. For a bad guy, M:i:III has Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose Owen Davian is surprisingly unmannered. He does not twirl a mustache or stroke a cat; he?s just a bad dude in a worse mood, simmering and glowering. Does Hoffman class up the film or lower its temperature? Argue both sides...
...empower the next generation of leaders to understand how their single voices can influence the public debate,” says Rothman. Today, Film Your Issue has grown to include eminent figures on its judging panel, with Distinguished Jurist Walter Cronkite and VIP Jury members such as George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Senator Barack Obama. Some of the world’s largest entertainment companies have also joined forces behind this initiative, including MTV, Walt Disney Studios, Entertainment Weekly, and USA Today. The Film Your Issue ThinkTank will judge the entries and select semi-finalists, and these films will...
...Another professor took issue with online evaluations, which were fully implemented last fall, saying the new system discouraged students from putting much thought into their evaluations.“I had large numbers of students who simply checked off some numbers and then went away,” said Philip J. Fisher, the Reid professor of English and American literature. “I learned nothing from the evaluations that I got this fall.”“The process that you are implementing is not deeply considered,” Fisher concluded, to applause.In the end, after...