Word: seamus
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...have received a good share of Nobel Prizes in literature. From Sinclair Lewis (1930) to Toni Morrison (1993) there have been a total of ten winners.” Sollors added that the United States has long been a destination for other writers, citing Russian-born Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney, an Irish writer who spent years teaching at Harvard. Several professors added that the broad indictment contained in Engdahl’s comment weakened his point because it amounted to a sloppy generalization. “What he is talking about is definitely not academic criticism and scholarly work...
English professor Helen Vendler invoked the words of an English poet, Robert Graves, to describe the decidedly Irish Seamus Heaney, who read from his poems to a sold out audience at Sanders Theater yesterday. “But nothing promised that is not performed,” Vendler quoted, inspired by her colleague’s tireless devotion to his students during his years as both the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard and Professor of Poetry at Oxford. When Heaney, a Nobel laureate, took the stage, he described it as “one of the greatest...
...black Labrador named Jet and a Shih Tzu with the oddly non-conformist name of Sonic. As First Lady, Hillary Clinton wrote a book titled, “Dear Socks, Dear Buddy” featuring letters that children had written to the First Pets, but now she just has Seamus the Labrador. Barack Obama has no pets, but true to the politics of hope, he has promised his two daughters he will get a dog when the election finishes...
...Seamus P. Malin ’62, who served as Harvard’s director of financial aid in the late sixties and seventies, said that after Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination, there had been a “continuum of progress” throughout the 1970s in increasing ethnic and socioeconomic diversity on college campuses...
...talented authors who still want to continue their writing careers after a brief teaching stint. Donoghue sees this as the reason that the department is constantly able to attract a steady stream of literary luminaries.In the past, creative writing courses have been taught by literary heavy hitters such as Seamus Heaney. Courses are also taught by members of other departments who have extensive experience in their field. This year Marcus Stern, associate director of the American Repertory Theater, is teaching a screenwriting workshop.The renowned director has found teaching creative writing courses Harvard to be both rewarding and challenging, albeit markedly...