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...Chemistry Cynthia M. Friend, for example, was one of only four women in a group of 90 Ph.D. candidates at the University of California, Berkeley. Grosz remembers no more than three women in any mathematics or computer class she took as a graduate student. Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler says she was taught by no women while studying for her Ph.D...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Searching for a Critical Mass | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...think one feels the gratitude of students that there are women here," says Vendler...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Searching for a Critical Mass | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...Vendler says she has seen no statistical evidence of a gender bias in the tenure process, and Garber, who is dean for affirmative action, says being a woman can sometimes even be an advantage...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Searching for a Critical Mass | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...University Professor Helen H. Vendler praised Brodhead's "remarkable sanity and perceptiveness" as well as his "even temper and high intelligence...

Author: By Eben B. Goodale and Tehshik P. Yoon, S | Title: English Prof Richard Brodhead Appointed Dean of Yale College | 2/5/1993 | See Source »

This wish for privacy, for restraint, is most moving when the poems that express it are themselves restrained--either metrically, as above, or to two or three tones of voice or registers of diction, or, simply, by being short. As Helen Vendler has noted, the situations and contexts in an Ashbery poem relate not to one another but to the poem's (emotional) center. The poems are often strongest when some structural constraint adds to their centripetal force...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Lyrical Moment | 12/17/1992 | See Source »

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