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...American poet working in a society too large and diffuse to communicate with effectively, a society where the voice of the poet has become irrelevant. In Love-Hate Relations: English and American Sensibilities, an account of the evolving relations between English and American literary and cultural life during the twentieth century, Spender tells of a poets' conference he attended at Harvard during the early '50s. To a full auditorium, Randall Jarrell lamented the obscurity of poets in modern society. Spender, as a foreigner and member of the audience, wondered why Jarrell chose to address this complaint to an adoring crowd...
...thousand times more important than...Albert Camus, for example!" We can chalk this up to youthful enthusiasm, but upon mature consideration Seaver begins his quasihagiographical introduction: "Samuel Beckett is, in my opinion, one of the two or three most important writers of the twentieth century." Isn't there enough of this on the flyleaf...
...University, except for a stronger emphasis on language and basic science courses. Seminars are available in conjunction with the Radcliffe Institute, and writing labs are also offered. The six largest enrollment courses this fall are, in order, "Accounting," "Intensive Elementary Spanish," "Intensive Elementary German," "The Human Life Cycle," "Twentieth Century Art" and "Nature and Function...
Most of the paintings have been horribly scratched by graffiti artists. Not all of them are twentieth century pranksters. Some were Byzantines themselves, airing their peeves about monastic life. This ancient writing, in fact, is of particular interest to Byzantine scholars for the peculiar contractions and, occasionally, outright slang that it employs...
...twentieth anniversary of my involvement with the Harvard Summer School of Arts and Sciences and of Education, and my seventeenth year as Director. The experience has been profoundly satisfying and never routine: a new school each year, but with a basic continuity; the interesting decade of the sixties and the new challenge of the seventies have been fully registered on the Summer School. I have had a strong, loyal and creative staff with minimal turnover in key positions. I have enjoyed the cooperation and friendship of members of the Faculties of Arts and Sciences and of Education throughout my tenure...