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...decided opinions about what makes a poem great inform her analysis in “Break, Blow, Burn,” and she devotes a few pages to her poetic philosophy in her introduction. But the greatness of almost all the poems she discusses here is uncontroversial, so her viewpoint does not emerge as clearly as it could...
...went on forever. I wonder what the Bard would have thought about all that. William Woodley Munich I read your reference to Shakespeare as "Will" with a shudder of distaste. Should we British be grateful you did not call him Bill? Moreover, I must disagree with Gary Taylor's Viewpoint in which he argued against Shakespeare's reputation as history's pre-eminent playwright. Renaissance dramatists Thomas Middleton and Robert Greene were good and even great, but definitely not as great as Shakespeare. My enjoyment of Shakespeare's language, wit and universality has grown steadily over the past 50 years...
Walt and Mearsheimer identify Frankel as the “executive editor” of the Times, a position in charge of the paper’s news operations. An executive editor who inserted his own political viewpoint into news commentaries would be widely accused of flouting journalistic ethics...
...editors: I think that Mark Adomanis’ comment today (“Foreign Affairs,” Apr. 3) voices an ignorant viewpoint. His claim that semesters or years spent overseas offer only drinking stories and bragging rights is not reflective of the study abroad experience in general. That many return with such shallow stories is undeniable, and makes one sorry for the “quarter of the college career lost;” but then again, what would those same people have been doing so differently back home that would “maintain America?...
...work,” he says.“I look at science as a way to bring out metaphors about human interactions,” Knep says. Knep is satisfying this fascination at HMS’s DSB, a new department that approaches biology from a multidisciplinary viewpoint. He spends at least one day a week in the lab working with researchers, peering into microscopes, and talking with them about their projects, such as the study of cellular locomotion. Knep talks with these researchers inside and outside the lab, enhancing his own scientific understanding while finding how best...