Word: vendler
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Kenan Professor of English and American Literature and Language Helen H. Vendler, who is working to increase minority interest in graduate schools, says Harvard has a well-qualified body of minority undergraduates but needs to persuade them to go into academia. In the past, universities have been reluctant to encourage minority students to enter academia because it is not as stable a profession as law or medicine...
...aspiriation to professions usually comes before the aspiration to pure scholarship," says Vendler of the pattern to create a minority middle class. But now, Blacks and Hispanics have begun to establish a middle class and can afford to venture into teaching, she says. "I would think there is a large enough Black middle class that their children can be scholars...
...very skillful reduction of [the poem]," said Helen H. Vendler, Kenan Professor of English and American Literature and Language. "The essence of it is kept and one feels the interplay between one's dead friends and oneself and that is what the poem is about...
...Vendler characterized Ashbery's work as elusive yet musical. Often experimental, the New York poet pioneers with creative forms, including single-line poems, 30-page prose poems, and double-columned poems, where two poems are meant to be read simultaneously on a single page, Vendler said...
...writes about what it is to be an intellectual susceptible to popular culture," including Daffy Duck cartoon and Hollywood movies, said Vendler. While his poetry is often difficult to read, she added, Ashbery writes to have "the wrecking ball of experience" shatter the "ivory tower of intellectuals, so that the street noises can come...