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...continued, to the laughter of the over 200-person audience. “I actually have two new poems to be published in the next month, one in The Nation, and the other in the Socialist Review...
...been one of his toughest critics. Wood, who is also a staff writer for The New Yorker, is noted for his censure of the postmodern social novel, which he termed the “contemporary American novel in its big triumphalist form” in a 2001 review of Franzen’s novel “The Corrections.” But at the event yesterday, Wood had little but kindness for his longtime target. “A lot of us will remember the moment of its publication because it was 2001 just around the time of 9/11...
...environmentally conscious world—will be applied to 600 schools this year. The rating, produced on a scale of 60 to 90, is formulated from 28 survey questions designed to judge these three environmental factors. EcoAmerica, a non-profit environmental organization, helped develop the questionnaire for the Princeton Review and collect the data from the 2007-2008 academic year. “It’s in everybody’s best interest to be more committed to ecology,” Director of Public Relations for the Princeton Review Harriet Brand said. “You?...
...celebrate it. The film’s final scene, in which the famous pair of Depression-era bank robbers die in a hail of bullets, is balletically graceful but horrifyingly brutal. According to Benton, it wasn’t until Newsweek’s Joe Morgenstern retracted his original review, which had called the film “a squalid shoot-’em-up,” that “Bonnie and Clyde” got any positive press. Film critic Pauline Kael’s fervid defense of the film in The New Yorker raised...
...those who are leaving or retiring, which when compared with the average hiring rates in the last ten years, represents a 30 percent decrease. While Smith’s desire for hiring flexibility in the face of FAS administrative restructuring and the departmental changes that accompany the General Education review comes with good reason, students nonetheless still deserve to have their basic academic needs met. To lead a rich academic life, students require faculty who specialize in diverse areas of interest and a comprehensive course selection in a variety of disciplines. While University Hall’s proposal reflects reasonable...