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Last night, Sert’s admirers, students and colleagues gathered to remember his life on the day that would have been his 100th birthday. The celebration kicked off a three-day symposium on Sert’s life and work...
...convinced that the world would be a better place in which to live.” In fact, poetry and politics have had a longstanding relationship. Recently, the relationship is tense, as in last winter’s flap over a White House poetry symposium cancelled because Laura Bush, upset by antiwar poets, decided she “did not believe poetry should be used for political purposes.” Indeed, the Bushes put an end to the budding tradition of having a poet read at inauguration and seem temperamentally to be at odds with many in the creative...
...stage, she made quick work of cleaning up the mess. First, she rescheduled the badly off-track symposium from the podium...
...Some people might say I’m being too alarmist on these matters, but I don’t think so,” he told the audience of a day-long symposium titled “Homeland and Global Security: Science, Technology, and the Role of the University...
...Cold Spring Harbor Symposium in 1989, Janeway made a groundbreaking prediction that certain receptors controlled the body’s response to invading pathogens...