Background
Carnochan, Walter Bliss was born on December 20, 1930 in New York City. Son of Gouverneur Morris and Sibyll Baldwin (Bliss) Carnochan.
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Confessions of a Dodger Fan is the story of an eight-year old boy in Manhattan who turns on the radio, hears Red Barber broadcasting a Dodger game, and becomes a lifelong fan. Mickey Owen's passed ball against the Yankees in 1941 is his first experience of bitter loss. During the war, while his father is stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, he sees his first game, between two navy teams, and comes home with an autographed ball signed by, among others, the Dodger shortstop Pee Wee Reese, one of the many players then in service. He grows up on John Tunis's baseball stories for young readers. He lives through the traumas of Bobby Thomson's home run-"the shot heard round the world"-and World Series losses to the Yankees before the Dodgers finally take the Series in 1955. When the Dodgers move West in 1958, he thinks he has shed the burden of fandom, only to move to northern California where, once again, he is in enemy territory, a Dodger fan in the wrong town. A memoir of fandom and its mysteries, Confessions of a Dodger Fan examines the different ways (and psychologies) of experiencing a game-radio, television, in person. The author defends the value, aesthetic and otherwise, of baseball's traditional statistics against the excesses of "sabermetrics," a playground for number crunchers, not for serious fans, who are in the grip of near-religious obsession. They suffer endlessly but wouldn't have it any other way. The literature of fandom is large, by writers as varied as Donald Hall, Nick Hornby, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and David Foster Wallace. Confessions of a Dodger Fan is for those fans who can't get enough; and for others who don't understand, but would like to, the fan's strange compulsions.
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From the eighteenth century to the present, travellers, explorers, journalists, imaginative writers like Samuel Johnson, and legendary reggae musician Bob Marley have shared a fascination with Abyssinia. So did even earlier writers and mapmakers, who thought Abyssinia was the land of the mythical (and fabulously rich) Christian ruler, Prester John. The principal subject of this book is the allure of the exotic, as represented by Abyssinia, to the British imagination. In addition to Johnson and Marley, some others included are the eighteenth-century Scot James Bruce, nineteenth-century explorer Richard Burton, author Evelyn Waugh, Wilfred Thesiger (best known of twentieth-century British explorers), Sylvia Pankhurst (crusading journalist and daughter of the suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst), and the contemporary Irish traveller Dervla Murphy. The author also considers the beginnings of anthropology and the variations of quest narrative in modern travel writing.
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'The crisis of liberal education is ... an intellectual crisis of the first magnitude, which constitutes the crisis of our civilization.' These doomsday words of Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind (1987) are among the latest and most politically inflammatory manifestations of a 'crisis' that this book demonstrates has been going on for two centuries. In contrast to the heated polemics and hyperbole of current debates concerning the role of higher education in the United States, this eloquent, balanced, and witty book seeks to bring sense to a volatile subject by reminding us that controversy has always surrounded the curriculum of the modern university. It points out where and how contemporary critics of the curriculum are wrong, historically speaking, and it shows how American ideals of 'liberal education' are obscure, the product of many different attitudes and historical intentions.
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(Memoir of a distinguished scholar and art collector, with...)
Memoir of a distinguished scholar and art collector, with emphasis on: --the historical and social background of his 19th century forebears, including members of New York high society and a governor of Michigan --collecting of American Folk Art --experience as a student and then "baby dean" at Harvard --experience as a young Stanford professor in the '60s --travel in Africa tracing the steps of his mysterious uncle
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Carnochan, Walter Bliss was born on December 20, 1930 in New York City. Son of Gouverneur Morris and Sibyll Baldwin (Bliss) Carnochan.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1953; A.M., Harvard, 1957; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1960.
Assistant dean freshmen, Harvard University, 1954-1956; successively instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, Professor of English,, Stanford (California) U., 1960-1994; professor emeritus, Stanford (California) U., since 1994; department chairman English, Stanford (California) U., 1971-1973; dean graduate studies, Stanford (California) U., 1975-1980; vice provost, Stanford (California) U., 1976-1980; director Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford (California) U., 1985-1991; Anthony P. Meier Family professor humanities, Stanford (California) U., 1988-1991; Richard W. Lyman professor humanities, Stanford (California) U., 1993-1994; Richard W. Lyman professor emeritus, Stanford (California) U., since 1994; acting director Stanford Humanities Center,, Stanford (California) U., since 1999. Member overseers commission to visit Harvard College, 1979-1985.
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Trustee Mills College, 1978-1985, Athenian School, 1975-1988, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, 1983-1996, 98-.
Married Nancy Powers Carter, June 25, 1955 (divorced 1978). Children– Lisa Powers, Sarah Bliss, Gouverneur Morris, Sibyll Carter. Married Brigitte Hoy Fields, September 16, 1979.