Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.
Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.