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...probably something like being gay in the Army,” Bennett says. “Half your colleagues are titillated by the same thing as you. But it doesn’t mean they want you to talk about it.” That might explain the fact that while there are many writers among Cambridge’s literati, Bennett feels the writing scene can be surprisingly hush-hush.According to Bennett, the relative silence of the writing community stems from a combination of individual pride and the English Department’s notoriously critical approach. Bennett perceives this...
...courses themselves, at least on paper, they look a whole lot like what undergraduates are used to at the College. The creative writing offerings provided by both institutions are nearly identical, and many members of the creative writing faculty at the Extension School are in fact part of the College’s Expository Writing program.REQUIRED WRITINGJust as all undergraduates at the College must take Expository Writing, Expos is also a requirement for the Extension School degree program. “The fiction and expository writing classes are great complements,” said Dr. William Weitzel, an Expository Writing...
...could always be one more year between this one and the next. The divorce will never occur and I’ll be able to stay hungover and barefoot the rest of my life, never impelled to look my sober head in the eyes.But the show will end. In fact, of course, it already has. We know for sure once the first eerie beam of evening light spills over the TV set and onto the empty coffeepot. After the last of the final credits, a new series of events will snap into motion: sleeping bodies will stir and start...
...into the size of a small classroom. My new universe included me and Katie, and my universe had no sense of time or place or anything like that. No longer was I in school in the middle of no where, South Dakota.... I…was somewhere else. The fact that the teacher was talking and I wasn’t listening to a word she said didn’t matter to me. School was for losers anyway, right? “James.”I looked at the teacher.“I asked you to tell...
...However, instead of encouraging Harvard students to join the military, the university has done the exact opposite. In fact, then-Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan wrote in 2005 that she felt that the military’s access to Harvard’s Office of Career Services was unacceptable. “I regret making this exception to our antidiscrimination policy,” she said when the Law School was forced to give military recruiters the same access that investment banks and consulting firms have to OCS or lose federal funding...