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Poetic Justice

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Zusatztext "[A] dazzling display of elegance of language." --The New York Times Book Review Informationen zum Autor Amanda Cross is the pseudonymous author of the bestselling Kate Fansler mysteries. As Carolyn G. Heilbrun, she is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Emerita at Columbia University. She has served as president of the Modern Language Association as well as vice president of the Authors Guild. Dr. Heilbrun is also the author of Writing a Woman's Life, Hamlet's Mother and Other Women, The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem, and The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty. Klappentext Student riots have ravaged the distinguished New York City university where Kate Fansler teaches. In the ensuing disarray, the survival of the university's plebeian stepchild, University College, seems doubtful. President Jeremiah Cudlipp is snobbishly determined to ax it; and as sycophantic professors fall in line behind him, the rally of Kate and few rebellious colleagues seems doomed. It is a fight to the death, and only a miracle--or perhaps a murder--can save their beloved institution. . . .Though mild clear weather Smile again on the shire of your esteem And its colors come back, the storm has changed you: You will not forget, ever, The darkness blotting out hope, the gale Prophesying your downfall. One That classes at the University began, as they were scheduled to, on September 17, was a matter of considerable astonishment to everyone. There was not a great deal to be said for revolutions--not, at any rate, in Kate's opinion--but they did accustom one to boredom in the face of extraordinary events, and a pleasant sense of breathless surprise at the calm occurrence of the expected. Kate said as much to Professor Castleman as they waited for the elevator in Lowell Hall. "Well," he answered, "I might have found myself even more overcome with amazement if they had not managed to put my course in historical methods, which never has less than a hundred and fifty students, into a classroom designed to hold ninety only if the students sit two in a chair, which, these days, they probably prefer to do. Though come to think of it," he added as the elevator, empty, went heedlessly past, apparently on some mysterious mission of its own, "I don't know why students should expect seats at lectures, since audiences can no longer expect them at the theater. We went to a play last night--I use the word 'play,' you understand, to describe what we expected to see, not what we saw--and not only were there no seats, the entertainment principally consisted of the members of the cast removing their clothes and urging, gently of course, that the audience do likewise. My wife and I, fully clothed, felt rather like missionaries to Africa insufficiently indoctrinated into the antics of the aborigines. Shall we walk down? One thing at least has not changed in this university: the elevators. They have never worked, they do not now work, and though an historian should never speak with assurance of the future, I am willing to wager that they never will. Where are you off to? Don't tell me, I know. A meeting. What's more, I can tell you what you are going to discuss: relevance." "That," said Kate, "would be the expected. As a matter of fact, I have a doctoral examination: the poetry of W. H. Auden. He wrote a good bit of clever poetry to your muse." "Mine? Gracious, have I got a muse? Just what I've needed all these years. Do you think I could trade her in for a cleaning woman, three days a week with only occasional ironing? My wife would be prostrate with gratitude." "Trade Clio in? Impossible. It is she into whose eyes 'we look for recognition after we have been found out.' " "Did Auden write that? Obviously he...

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Authors Amanda Cross
Publisher Fawcett Book Group
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.01.2001
 
EAN 9780449007037
ISBN 978-0-449-00703-7
No. of pages 224
Dimensions 106 mm x 175 mm x 15 mm
Series Kate Fansler Novels (Paperback
Kate Fansler
Kate Fansler
Subject Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage

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