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...focus back to the arts, not just swanky lunches. He has involved Signet alumni and faculty members in Signet events, including Stockard Channing ’65, Tommy Lee Jones ’62, John A. Lithgow ’67, and Porter University Professor Helen Vendler...
Using three Wallace Stevens poems throughout her talk, Vendler argued that “the arts present the whole uncensored human person as no other branch of human accomplishment does,” and therefore deserve a more strong focus in American academics...
...want to propose that the humanities should take, as their central objects of study, not the texts of historians or philosophers, but the products of aesthetic endeavor—architecture, art, dance, music, literature, theater, and so on,” Vendler said...
Jennie K. Hann ‘05, an English concentrator, said that she was pleased to see Vendler arguing for a more prominent role for the arts in U.S. culture...
...Vendler concluded her talk with emphasis on the relationship between individuals...