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Meanwhile, the English Department will boast 44 new courses, including seminars. The new courses will include a seminar on Walt Whitman by Porter University Professor Helen Vendler. She will also teach a new course on five modern American poets...
Senator John McCain (ARIZ.) 56% * 55% Governor Jim Edgar (ILL.) 61% 20% * Governor John Engler (MICH.) 65% 13% Governor Christine Todd Whitman (N.J.) 47% 25% * Governor George Voinovich (OHIO) 75% 42% * Governor Tom Ridge (P.A.) 43% 18% * former Governor Carroll Campbell (S.C.) 66% 14% * Governor George W. Bush (TEXAS) 49% 15% 28% Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson (TEXAS) 60% 22% 32% Governor Tommy Thompson...
...nine months. Half of our class, including myself, were commuters. For those of us who lived in the dorms, the pleasant pre-war amenities soon became memories. By 1943, most of our Harvard classmates were in uniform. The WAVES moved into Briggs Hall and then later into Whitman. Radcliffe students were crowded into the rest of the dorms and outside houses. Progress across the Radcliffe and Harvard Yards meant dodging lines of marching women...
...life, when they are not old enough to make a mature judgment about their own inclinations. The Utah legislature recently passed a bill banning gay clubs in state high schools. And at Merrimack High School in New Hampshire, teachers have stopped using a film on the life of Walt Whitman because it mentions...
Poetry is autobiography for some writers, transposed memories of voyages both interior and across time's span. Think of Wordsworth, seemingly cursed with total recall, or Whitman with his barbaric yawps about Brooklyn and the Union dead. Or consider Virginia Hamilton Adair, whose Ants on the Melon (Random House; 158 pages; $21) may prove to be the year's finest volume of verse...