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There has been confusion surrounding theappointment since the college, named for the slaincivil rights leader, announced two weeks ago thatCounter had accepted the post, after having beenunanimously selected to be its president by theBoard of Overseers of CUNY...
...epiphany, which Carver's characters depend on, is the creature of Modernism; post-modernists are supposed to get beyond it somehow, as writers like Donald Barthelme, Susan Sontag, and Robert Coover have demonstrated. Carver's faith in the epiphany is a throwback to an earlier way of thinking about fiction. He believes in telling a story plainly and completely. Carver's stories follow a discipline that seems to come out of necessity. His stories just barely escape the desperate world that they describe. There's no artifice--Carver wouldn't pass off a "Project for a Trip to China" (Sontag...
Counter, if he accepts the post, will replaceMedgar Evers' acting president, Dr. Leo A. Corbie,who would then resume his duties as vicechancellor for student affairs and specialprograms...
...clunky style of "Errand" is a throwback to the 19th century, but "Errand" is an experiment, a post-modern experiment, on the border between fiction and non-fiction. Capote's In Cold Blood and, more recently, Don DeLillo's Libra are other examples of the post-modern urge to cross genres and mix fact with fiction. Seen in this light, "Errand" is not a return of older influences, it is a departure from the rigid prohibitions that minimalism can impose...
...four-year legal battle between Harvard Business School and Jackson, who charges that she was denied tenure in 1983 because she is a woman, is winding down. Jackson has sued the University and Dean of the Business School John H. McArthur for a tenured post and $847,000 in attorney fees and lost income. Federal Judge Douglas P. Woodlock is expected to hand down a verdict in the near future...