Word: spokenness
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...felt it was more of a speech than a sermon,” said Tasha C. Bartch ’06, who regularly attends services at Memorial Church. “But people were clapping with a sense of relief that a moral authority had finally spoken...
...flowers with emotional insight, a gift for comedy and a sure sense of pacing. Wisely, this novel eschews a feel-good resolution. What it does provide is an immensely satisfying reading experience. FORECAST: Bestsellerdom is writ large for this novel, sure to be greeted with rave reviews. The soft-spoken, diminutive Tartt, who looks more like a Southern belle than a writer with a dark imagination, should be an asset on talk shows." 300,000 first printing...
Summers has also spoken of the need to tenure professors who still have their best work in front of them...
...most responsible for Rumi's popularity in the West today is Coleman Barks, a poet and retired professor of English at the University of Georgia. Humble and soft-spoken, Barks acknowledges that his translations are often far from exact renditions of the Farsi of Rumi's day?which in any case he doesn't speak. To create them, he has used literal translations provided by others. Barks' emphasis on poetic essence over linguistic exactitude owes a strong debt to earlier poet-translators like Robert Bly, Kenneth Rexroth and Ezra Pound who championed a style of direct, aggressively unacademic translation. Following...
Though Lewis has no formal role as dean of the College to play in the upcoming curricular review and generally defers to the dean of the Faculty on academic matters, he has in the past spoken out on certain Faculty-wide issues...