A scholarly journal of literature, science and culture. Publishes original contributions by key figures in the worlds of fiction, criticism, and poetry.
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- Gazing into the abyss. (September 2007)
- Cornerstones. (September 2007)
- Love on campus. (September 2007)
Gazing into the abyss.
By Young, C. Dale
(September 2007)
Thank you for Christian Wiman's thoughtful and thought-provoking essay, "Gazing into the Abyss." As an oncologist, I witness despair and suffering almost daily. It is difficult at times even to understand what I do or who I am as a physician. What floored me when reading Mr. Wiman's essay is its integrity. Along with its intelligence, this essay is moving because of its unflinching honesty.
To admit in the SCHOLAR that one has a fatal illness, that one found...
Cornerstones.
By Wilson, Robert
(September 2007)
It's dawned on me lately that I've seen with my own eyes more than one-fifth of all American history. That's long enough, or should be, to get the drift, to have some sense of where those times have taken us. I was born before Brown v. Board of Education, before the civil and human rights movements of the 1960s, before the growth of environmental awareness in the 1970s, before the computer and communications revolutions that have transformed all of our lives. How could you...
Love on campus.
By Sandler, Stanley
(September 2007)
Yale professor William Deresiewicz expects us to believe that when intimacy takes place between student and professor, "it is an intimacy of the mind. I would even go so far as to say it is an intimacy of the soul.... The professor ignites these feelings just by standing in front of a classroom talking about Shakespeare" or Aristotle. Maybe at Yale, but I think he will find at, say, East Tincup Creek State, where students are less likely to be "ignited" in their souls...
