Word: schama
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...Simon Schama, a cultural and philosophical historian who teaches history at Columbia University, elicited laughs and a lengthy round of applause with his speech, “The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Ozzy Osbourne...
...Schama said today’s society should reclaim the ability to use spoken language well, particularly in the face of pop culture and sound bytes...
...Simon Schama, a professor of history and art history at Columbia University, will give the keynote address. Poet Charles Wright, a professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, will present a poetry reading...
...Schama, a professor of history and Mellon professor of the social sciences at Harvard before leaving to teach at Columbia in 1993, has made a career out of smoothly blending history and art history. In his most recent book, _Landscape and Memory_ (1995), Schama sought to explain what nature and geography has meant to culture, myth, art, and consciousness. In _Dead Certainties_ (1991), a book of two stories about the early United States, he analyzed the political and cultural significance of a painting by Benjamin West. (The other part of the book, "Death of a Harvard Man," dealt with...
...This book, while not of the same trans-historical interest as "Landscape and Memory," has the virtue of being as close to exhaustive about its subject as one could hope. There is little psychological interpretation that Schama leaves undone, and little consequential biographical detail that he leaves unmentioned. _Rembrandt's Eyes_ will be a definitive work on the painter and his work, a mammoth book that takes on with grace the equally mammoth task of explaining what is behind the brooding eyes of Rembrandt's portraits...