Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like many of Eliot's critics, Ozick says she is repelled by the poet's alleged anti-Semitism and his cruelty towards his wife. She takes particular offense at Eliot's book called The Idea of a Christian Society, in which he says that cultural unity can be achieved through...
But members of the new generation say that writing has been less a choice than a necessity for them. Like their predecessors, the new poets see poetry as a way to express--and get through--life's tragedies.
Although many of these writers witnessed the disintegration of their own lives, they often were able to exorcise their pain through their poetry.
"Free speech is uniquely important to the University because we are a community committed to reason and rational discourse," the report reads. "Free interchange of ideas is vital for our primary function of discovering and disseminating ideas through research, teaching and learning."
Covering the University's finances through June 30, 1989, the report noted a $320 million jump in Harvard's endowment this past year, from about $4.2 billion to a record high of almost $4.5 billion.