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abnormality, or conduct entirely explainable by high-risk socialist,
Communist, or Zionist commitments; or whether abnormality led
to and was sustained by the commitments. When all the ambient
pressure of his political engagements is accounted for, there remains
the achievement of an individual mind: the achievement as a whole
cannot be deduced from anyone or all of the ideological commit–
ments. By power of understanding he first sought to master and
then to reconcile fate. Fate had announced itself when
fin
de
siecle
theorists of decadence pointed to race mixing as the secret of Ro–
man - and other imperial- collapse. On that canvas of vast scope,
Borkenau used twentieth-century colors to paint a panorama seen by
a liberal eye.
Intensive
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Residencies
August and January on the Vermont campus
Workshops, classes, readings. Planning for
6·month projects
Non-Resident 6-Month Writing Projects
Individually designed during residency
Direct criticism of manuscripts • Sustained
dialogue with faculry
Faculty
Dianne Benedict
Mark Doty
Pam Durban
Mekeel McBride
Larry Millman
Jack. Myers
Howard Norman
Gladys Swan
Leslie Ullman
Gordon Weaver
Roger Weingarten
Visiting Writers
Glenda Adams
Nicholas Christopher
Carolyn Chute
Stanley Elkin
Daniel Mark Epstein
Leslie Epstein
Laura Furman
Diana O'Hehir
Mary Oliver
Mary Robison
Pattiann Rogers
Susan Stewart
Degree work in poetry, David Wojahn
fiction and non-fiction, John Yount
For further infonnation:
Roger Weingarten. MFAWriting
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