Word: robison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...represents a glasnost-era breakthrough that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. "Without perestroika, we would not be here in America," says Imbi Hepner, a bouncy 21- year-old education major now at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. The program was initiated by three American college presidents -- Olin Robison of Middlebury, Alice Ilchman of Sarah Lawrence and David Fraser of Swarthmore -- who presented the idea to the Soviet Ministry of Higher Education last year...
...necessarily a male code with Carver; the women (in "Careful," for example) are often more stoic than their men. In narrative style, Carver believes in saying less. He has been called the founder of the new Minimalism, or, according to Granta, Dirty Realism, whose followers include Richard Ford, Mary Robison, Jayne Anne Phillips, Tobias Wolff and Bobbie Ann Mason...
...Yours," in An Amateur's Guide to the Night, Mary Robison. A wise, poignant pumpkin-carving story from Harvard's own writer-in-residence. Apart from letting you cool down after the macabre O'Connor, "Yours" reveals a more human side to the Halloween season. And Robison finds a beautiful metaphor in the dying flame at the heart of every jack-o'-lantern...
...book in progress. A Berkeley graduate student, Stephen Kotkin, was permitted not only to visit the remote steelmaking city of Magnitogorsk last summer but also to write three separate columns on his observations for a local Soviet newspaper. In the most striking development of the new academic glasnost, Olin Robison, president of Middlebury, announced in September that a consortium of 18 Northeastern colleges has signed up for a program of undergraduate exchanges planned to begin next year with schools and universities throughout the Soviet Union. Never before has the U.S.S.R. let loose platoons of Soviet students...
Harvard has been no exception. One of the few bright spots in Harvard's otherwise undistinguished English department is its creative writing courses, which have been taught for the past few years by Mary Robison, a frequent contributor of short stories to The New Yorker, and Christopher Leland, a novelist. Leland's new novel, Mrs. Randall, is proof positive that the man can do, as well as teach...