Word: tillinghast
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Richard W. Tillinghast, who teaches English Cbr's two poetry sections, the road began and ended according to the blueprint. But somewhere in the middle his path took an unusual turn: the road from Cambridge to Cambridge led, not through Oxford, but through radical Berkeley, Istanbul, and Tennessee...
...Tillinghast's first experience at Harvard precipitated all that followed. Graduating from the University of the South in 1962, the young student came north to Cambridge where he studied under the renowned poet Robert Lowell. Although Tillinghast found his mentor exhilarating, four years with the poet proved almost too powerful. As the erstwhile student now recalls, "You have to get out from under the influence eventually--his view of life was so overwhelming and a bit gloomy, that just for psychological reasons I thought it was important for me to leave...
...leave he did. In 1968, after earning his Ph.D Tillinghast accepted a teaching position at the University of California at Berkeley and landed in the middle of a left leaning college community in turbulent times...
United States Attitudes Toward Multinational Corporations--Seminar with Detlev F. Vagts, professor of Law; David R. Tillinghast, Hughes, Hubbard, & Reed, NYC; Peter D. Ehrenhaft, deputy assistant secretary and special counsel, US. Dept. of the Treasury; Walter S. Surrey, Surrey, Karasik & Morse, Washington, DC; and Louis Loss, William, Nelson Crowell Professor of Law; Room 101, Roscoe Pound Building...
...Tillinghast said she opposes devising "stereotypically female" courses--traditionally found in the humanities--and would like to see the committee explore other areas...