Word: rejectionism
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Shoptaw says Ashbery's rejection from graduate school is an important lesson for students interesting in pursuing a career in the arts, and especially writers.
Despite his less-than-stellar senior thesis and rejection from the GSAS, Ashbery returned to Cambridge in 1989 as Norton Professor of Poetry, a position he retained until 1990. The Norton professorship is one of the country's most prominent guest lectureships: Ashbery was following in the footsteps of such...
At that time, Shoptaw points out, Ezra Pound was still alive and writing, and Ashbery's comment reflects his rejection of what Shoptaw calls "the Pound tradition, the other poetic tradition of high modernism."
One secret to the company's success, she says, is a "totally uncorporate" corporate philosophy, that has spawned employee-driven initiatives like a Fresh Samantha look-alike contest in addition to a program that allows college students to trade in job rejection letters for free bottles of juice.
I sometimes wonder why it took us three-and-a-half years of college to meet, but I also know of some powerful internal forces that may have been working against our meeting sooner. They are the same feelings that linger in the hearts of all of us to varying...