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Based on the Farnum Lectures she delivered at Princeton in 2003, “Invisible Listeners” is built around three essays on three very different poets—George Herbert, Walt Whitman, and John Ashbery—who, Vendler argues, share a common desire to find companionship or hold colloquy with some fundamentally inaccessible “other...
...might come closer to the vertical if I attempted to offer the apologies I owe the poets whose voices I so hideously distorted in my attempts at ventriloquism above. (On which: sorry, George. Sorry, Walt. Ashbery technically does not belong, as I could look him up in the New York phone book. But, for the record, I’m sorry...
...positive aspect of Harvard,” said applicant Matt S. Levinson, also a senior at Randolph High School. Consequently, he added, the media attention and the resignation “won’t necessarily negatively affect the majority of people applying.”And a senior Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md., Alex Imas, who did not apply to Harvard, said, “I think more highly of Harvard now than I did a year ago.” The Faculty’s expression of dissent “tells me that there?...
...think to love Disney is to love the sinner and hate the sin. It’s very hard to have read much about Walt and think about him as a particularly likeable person. Tolstoy borrowed money from his friends and pissed it away gambling while his children starved...
EPCOT as envisioned by Walt was certainly nightmarishly controlling, although endlessly fascinating. He wanted to build a planned city, a new town, with a dome over it, a nuclear power plant and electric cars, and a social contract that supercedes the Constitution. People would waive their Constitutional rights in favor of an explicit written social contract that would be more like an employment contract...