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...classroom, to be playful and attentive, for the other thing--the end we aren't ready for--will overtake us if we fail to maintain our childlike interests. (Ashbery's most optimistic poems usually take place indoors, in safety, in environments which preclude endlessness.) The same blending of the scholar's voice with the inquiring child's takes over in this book's most triumphant poem, "Notes From...
...Rhodes Scholar, Brown says he plans to study health policy and work towards a Ph.D. at Oxford University...
Parodying the omnipresent Room 13 posters, thesigns featured imaginary quotes from students withcomplaints such as, "I've never gone to a formalwith a Rhodes Scholar," and "Bill Clinton is theonly Rhodes Scholar I know from Arkansas...
Tommy's served fries, raspberry lime rickeys and cheesesteak sandwiches to generations of Adams House residents, Crimson and Lampoon writers and Cantabrigians. During the week, it was the study break hangout of choice for many a scholar pulling an all-nighter. On weekends, it provided refreshment and jukebox selections to the drunken post-party, pre-hook up crowd...
Rodriguez offers himself as an example and proof of this. He is a Mexican American with an "Italian suit, an American voice and an Indian face," a Catholic homosexual who was taught by Irish nuns in a parochial school in Northern California, a scholar of English literature whose Spanish retains a gringo accent. He steadfastly refuses to give any of these identities primacy, to allow any one gloss on his thought...