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...1960s, the Committee on Higher Degrees in History of Science and Learning, established four decades earlier by Cohen’s mentor Georges Sarton, became the History of Science department. Cohen was the department’s first chair...
...Sarton's speech, "Solitude and Creativity," dealt with her attitudes towards living alone and the subsequent effects of solitude on her writing...
...Writing a novel is like writing an exam on which your whole life depends, every night for a year," poet and novelist May Sarton, inaugural speaker at the Open Forum, told an audience of over 450 last night at Cronkhite Graduate Center...
...would not advise living alone for anyone very young, because you've got to have something in your knapsack," Sarton said, adding that she did not live alone until she was 45, and by then she had experienced "a rather nice life from the point of view of friendships and lovers...
...alliance with a sailor. The two have that in common: Hilary was once married to a man, but manifestly prefers her own gender. They both write poetry too. Between Mar's visits, Hilary sandwiches an interview with two reporters from a literary magazine. This gives Poet-Novelist Sarton, who is just the other side of 53, an excuse to review Hilary's life and attachments (Phillippa the governess, Nurse Gillespie, Willa MacPherson, Dorothea and Madeleine HiRose) and gush about lyrical art ("Intensity commands form"). Absolutely nothing else happens. The title page identifies this book as a novel, Miss...