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...beautiful as any farm country. It was a materialist faith with a long American pedigree, one that had found its way into the plainspoken art of Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins in the 19th century. Its essence was summed up for the 20th in the dictum of the poet William Carlos Williams, who was an acquaintance of Sheeler's and once sat for his camera: "No ideas but in things...
Harlow's descent into obscurity had a lot to do with the man himself. He was a hard-nosed experimentalist and a poet, a workaholic and an alcoholic. Despite his extraordinary success, Harlow was constantly plagued with depression and self-doubt. He was appallingly sexist in some ways yet treated female colleagues with absolute equality...
...mostly his own. Is Cavanagh accusing Buell—equally tenured—of somehow being more receptive to whatever evil vapors he believes Summers expels? Is Cavanagh questioning Buell’s judgment? If Summers’ “bigotry is showing” by opposing a poet who appears to sanction homicide, then what does that presume about Cavanagh’s position...
Speaking at the Askwith Forum at the Graduate School of Education, Pinker denied the possibility of poet Philip Larkin’s well-known adage that your parents “f--- you up, your mum and dad / They may not mean to but they do”—a passage he quoted, to the delight of the crowd...
...accounts this Paulin fellow the English Department invited to lecture here is a despicable example of the anti-Semitic and/or anti-Israel posturing unfortunately quite widespread among European intellectuals (News, “Poet Flap Drew Summers’ Input,” Nov. 14). We think he probably should not have been invited. But Harvard has had its share of cranks, monsters, scoundrels and charlatans lecture here and has survived...