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There’s off the grid, and there’s waaay off the grid

Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged , , , on January 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

What kind of guy hikes the Keystone XL pipeline? The kind of guy who lives in a van in a parking lot at Duke (and writes a book about it).  

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Duke and UNC: ‘alike as two peas in a pod’?

Posted in On This Day, tagged , , , , , on September 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »

On this day in 1958: Capping an 18-year legal struggle, the Ackland Art Museum is dedicated at the University of North Carolina. As specified in his bequest, the museum’s benefactor, William Hayes Ackland, is interred within the building with a recumbent statue on his marble sarcophagus. When he died in 1940, Ackland, a Washington lawyer, [...]

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Death noted: William Styron’s roommate

Posted in History, Just A Bite, Literature, tagged , , on September 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“Am now rooming [at Duke] with Art Katz of Memphis and Claude Kirk of Montgomery, Ala. Both are transfers from Emory, and they’re good guys.” – Letter from William Styron to his father, March 12, 1944 “[Florida Gov. Claude Kirk] rises to the challenge, occasionally with a fine and almost classic use of the language… [...]

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Jane Fonda, free range lecturer in political science

Posted in History, Just A Bite, tagged , , , on August 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“If you understood what communism was, you would hope and pray on your knees that we would someday be communist. I am a socialist, I think that we should strive toward a socialist society — all the way to communism.” – Jane Fonda, speaking at Duke University in 1979  

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How Duke University lost its religion

Posted in Just A Bite, tagged , , , on June 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »

“Trinity, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was a small Methodist college with strict rules governing student conduct, required daily chapel attendance and college-sponsored annual revivals. As the school expanded [and was renamed for benefactor James B. Duke], students began  to engage in more and more extracurricular and social affairs, student self-government took [...]

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Reynolds Price: ‘Paradise Lost,’ connection found

Posted in Just A Bite, Literature, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“Reynolds Price was doodling on a paper placemat in a Harvard Square cafe on a spring morning in 1992 when he told me about the copy of ‘Paradise Lost’ he had bought for himself five years earlier after surviving extensive treatment for spinal cancer. Price… teaches a course on John Milton at Duke University, but [...]

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What’s the frequency, Ngram Viewer?

Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on December 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Google Books Ngram Viewer may not be remembered as one of the 21st Century’s most useful (or statistically sophisticated) inventions, but the patterns revealed in its phrase-frequency charts can be addictively entertaining. For example: – Tar Heel vs. Tarheel – beef barbecue vs. pork barbecue – North Carolina football vs. North Carolina basketball – [...]

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Dylan Thomas gave a reading to remember

Posted in On This Day, tagged , , , , , on May 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

On this day in 1953: Fred Chappell, a junior at Canton High School, hitchhikes 250 miles to Duke University to hear his hero, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Chappell will soon enroll at Duke and study under writing professor William Blackburn, whose students over the years also include Reynolds Price, William Styron, Josephine Humphreys and Anne [...]

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