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Article: Nobel winner stays close to students
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 16, 1996
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You know they wouldn't kill you.
Just playing rough, like young America will.
Still, it taught me something about love.
If it's so tough, forget it.
- 1992 Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott got the call from old buddy John Morrow, director
of resource development at Harold Washington College. Walcott had
taught Morrow in a writing class at the University of the Virgin
Islands in 1979.
Would he come visit the downtown college and its mostly black
student body?
"I did it particularly because of John. He's a good friend,"
the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature said last week
during his Chicago visit. "But it's also for the students. They're
the main reason."
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