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...team in the tournament is capable of taking a lot of shots it's Northeastern. The Huskies (9-3 on the year) boast two solid offensive lines, with junior center Carolyn Sullivan, freshman center Lisa Sylvia and freshman right wing Kerrie Cronin the players to watch. The trio was red hot in a recent 9-5 triumph over women's hockey powerhouse Princeton...
...debate over the validity of drawing on private experiences as source material for poetry continues: Hamilton illustrates its endurance by raising an interesting comparison between Lowell and his student Sylvia Plath. Plath's line "Daddy, Daddy, you bastard, I'm through" in her 1962 poem "Daddy," Hamilton suggests, was inspired by Lowell's long poem The Mills of the Kavanaughs, with its line "You are a bastard, Michael, aren't you? Nein." In fact, Lowell was largely responsible for the freedom and Plath and other modern poets enjoyed to include material from their private lives in their...
Just 29 seconds later, the Huskies struck again, once more on a slapshot from the blue line. Forward Pattie Magrath took the puck from teammate Lisa Sylvia, positioned herself, and then sent a rocket flying past Taste...
...those who never saw Robert Lowell on the occasions when he was out of his mind, the best poet of his generation seemed almost too proper a Bostonian. Students in his classroom at Boston University during the '50s (including Sylvia Plath) found him "diffident" and "reserved." His "mild, myopic manner" hardly placed him in the company of the wild men of letters, like his friends Delmore Schwartz and John Berryman. But Lowell, as the English poet-critic Ian Hamilton reveals in this melancholy biography, was the wildest of them...
...impression," says Seymour Papert, 59, the gray-bearded, South African-born M.I.T. mathematician whose theoretical work in the arcane field of artificial intelligence led to Logo. "It convinces the child that he can master the machine. It lets him say, 'I'm the boss.' " Says Dr. Sylvia Weir, a pediatrician who works with the Educational Computing Group at M.I.T: "People have usually considered the stupid thing in the classroom the child. Now the stupid thing, as it were, is the computer. And the child is the teacher." Giving children this kind of control can sometimes have dramatic...