Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four years from some of the school's world-class scholars. Many top Harvard faculty, say critics, tend to be too engrossed in their own research, too busy with outside consulting or just too lordly to bother with anything so trivial as an undergraduate. One eager junior, preparing to write a paper on relations between the U.S. and China, asked for an appointment with Ross Terrill, then director of Harvard's East Asian Studies programs. After a long delay (standard heel cooling for an interview, claims one source, is two weeks), the youngster got in to ask advice. "Rather...
...Political Scientist Joseph Nye dines informally with undergrads and hosts small discussion groups. Alan Brinkley, son of TV Commentator David, teaches an oversubscribed course on the Viet Nam War and a lecture series in American history. He does so with such fine basic organization that students claim their notes write themselves. Physics Professor Gerald Holton has punctuated his lecture on dynamics and energy by strapping on a helmet, jumping into a go-cart powered by a fire extinguisher and jetting out through a swinging door...
...course of these studies, he heard talk of a controversy over some ancient documents that had recently been found near the Dead Sea. And so he persuaded The New Yorker to send him to the new state of Israel to learn more, and that was how he came to write The Scrolls from the Dead...
Wilson, always combative, was made more so by whisky, but he met his match in Robert Lowell, who was then entering one of his periodic descents into insanity and was involved with a "pretty little girl in Cambridge, who wanted to write poetry." Lowell asked the girl to join them at dinner, and to disguise the scene a little he invited quite a few others. Mrs. Lowell, who had only planned on dinner for four, did her best to disinvite some of the new guests. "She was in a dreadful state of tension and apprehension, having realized that Robert...
...poignant State Trooper and make it his own. He looks like the guy one stool over at the truck stop, with a Peterbilt cap and a waistline that has seen a little too much barbecue, but he reads Faulkner, Steinbeck and Hemingway and points out that "you can't write if you don't read...