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Robert C. Wood??academic, policymaker under U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy ’40 and Lyndon B. Johnson, and institutional leader (notably of the University of Massachusetts system)—died on Friday at his home in Boston of stomach cancer...
...Wood??s disapproval of the book is part of his rejection of what he has called “hysterical realism,” a form that skirts character development in favor of a plot that “privileges...the fantastic, the paranoid,” he says. To Wood??s delight, though, Smith has since sent him excerpts—since the two are, after all, friends now—of her newest novel, On Beauty, due out in September. Wood notes that Smith seems to have reverted to her comedic roots...
...Dead Wood?...
Other professors such as Mansfield say their real concern is that the “dead wood?? in the faculty will restrict change by preventing younger faculty from moving in, leading to stagnation in the department...
...view that the line between literature and criticism shouldn’t exist is evident in Wood??s essays themselves. They are long pieces, four thousand words that critique concepts and ideas as much as the texts. In the course of a review he often alludes to other authors and works, since “all serious writers are very serious readers...