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...often that you find a piece of literature that diversely affected the American political scene," Engell says, adding that the poem was widely quoted and cited during debates over the Constitution...
...case included in the book is a poem called "The Connecticut Wit," written to convince the Connecticut Constitutional Convention to pass the Constitution...
...principal or even computer salesman who claimed that insufficient data is the root of the problem. With an Internet connection, you can gather the latest stuff from all over, but too many American high school students have never read one Mark Twain novel or Shakespeare play or Wordsworth poem, or a serious history of the U.S.; they are bad at science, useless at mathematics, hopeless at writing--but if they could only connect to the latest websites in Passaic and Peru, we'd see improvement? The Internet, said President Clinton in February, "could make it possible for every child with...
Written in 1962, her poem "Prospective Immigrants Please Note," applied in its historical moment most immediately to the civil rights movement and the women's right movement. For our purposes here, it also applies to the questions of intellectual elitism and upward social mobility--two doors facing potential incoming freshmen this April just as squarely as they are facing graduating seniors. For you who stand in front of such decisions...
...This poem should be hand screened on the covers of those glaringly blank, red pre-frosh folders. It is a valuable lesson for those at any transitional stage, in front of any door: Whether you go through or do not go through, know that the risks, the double-vision, the possibilities, the deterrents and the costs will be there nonetheless. They are the things to deal with. The door is only a detail...