The Chronicle of Higher Education

Wordsworth for Wonks

Getting a classroom full of freshmen to slow down and admire the little cat feet of poems often takes a world of creativity, and perhaps an immunity to hollow stares. But eliciting such admiration from staff members on Capitol Hill — hopelessly tethered to their BlackBerrys, constantly astir to "Beat! beat! drums!" — seems an exercise...

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