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This argument is established early in Birthday Letters, when Hughes records meeting Plath, a Fulbright scholar, at Cambridge University in 1956: "I was being auditioned/ For the male lead in your drama." A tempestuous courtship soon gives way to an equally stormy marriage: two ambitious poets--one English and reserved, the other American and outwardly exuberant but secretly troubled--yoked together in an initial ecstasy that eventually subsides into mutual misery. Hughes, in his telling, learns that Plath has brought problems along with her "long, perfect, American legs." He becomes acquainted with her "homicidal/ Hooded stare," her "dybbuk fury...
Before appointing a scholar to tenure, mostuniversities, such as the University of Californiaat Berkeley, seek to determine that the nominee'squalifications meet their institutionalrequirements...
...major difference between Harvard and otherinstitutions is that while other universities,such as Princeton, use the outside evaluationssimply as a measuring stick, Harvard my actuallyoffer tenure to an outside scholar who appears inseveral blind letter responses, rather than itsown internal candidate...
...what are the facts behind these accusations, and what do they add up to? A conspiracy of Clinton haters directed by some sinister Mr. Big (Jerry Falwell? Jesse Helms? That wizard of interconnectedness, Kevin Bacon?) or merely a gleeful chorus of detractors singing, for once, in perfect harmony? One scholar of conspiracy thinks he knows without even examining the evidence. Says Daniel Pipes, author of Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From: "It fits into a familiar pattern where people in trouble turn to a conspiracy theory...
Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy Isadore Twersky passed away last October at the age of 67. Twersky, described in The Crimson's obituary as "a pioneer in the study of Jewish thought," was an internationally renowned scholar who helped build Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies into a leading institute for the study of Jewish texts. A leader within the local Jewish community and within academe, Twersky seemed to have left everyone with a positive impression. He is sorely missed...