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...Sexton took over a middle-of-the-packlaw school that had played second fiddle tointracity rival Columbia for its entire history.After a decade of academic pump-priming, theschool now hovers among the nation's elite...
...Sexton inherited a sizable war chest and didimpressive fund-raising on his own. But ratherthan locking up the loot, he gave the key to starprofessors--without a large hike in salaries--byexpanding prominent programs for legalscholarships...
...postfeminists Camille Paglia and Katie Roiphe have tried to persuade us that a woman's power lies in her sexuality, Wurtzel wants to inform those perhaps unfamiliar with the basic tenets of the women's movement that it isn't always thus. From Delilah to Anne Sexton to '70s supermodel Gia, she reminds us, seductive, complicated women haven't had an easy time...
...just the year's best book of poems but may also turn out to be the year's best book. Poised, architectural and built to last in the effortlessly disciplined tradition of W.H. Auden and Robert Lowell, the poems also have a sharp confessional kick worthy of Anne Sexton at her most bruising. In "My Mammogram," McClatchy, 52 (editor of the Yale Review and author of the libretto for Emmeline, a new opera by Tobias Picker that opens next week at Lincoln Center), recounts a disturbing examination for cancer of the male breast: "Mammography's on the basement floor...
...list of Bunting fellows reads like a who's who of achieving women," Brock said. "Anne Sexton was in the first Bunting class and Tillie Olsen in the second. Alice Walker also wrote her first novel at the Institute," Brock said...