Many of Malhotra's arguments are risible, but he has deftly turned the rhetoric of post-colonialist academia back against the academy: his essays read like right-wing parodies of Michel Foucault and Edward Said.
No doubt flushed with success, he attempted to win a second prize, this time in answer to the academy's call for an essay on inequality.
Although American schools had long been producing first-rank performers, he wrote in a 1920 essay celebrating the academy's 25th anniversary, "they never have and, in the nature of things, they cannot produce composers".
As blacks fought in the streets for civil rights, black integrationists and black nationalists dueled in the academy and in books and essays.
The students had met strict requirements, including being nominated by directors for outstanding participation in the academy's programs, writing two essays about Germany, and making a two-minute presentation to their peers and Mr. Isaac.
In an essay quoted on the academy's Web site, Mr. Levine, now 85, described the impulse to put his experiences on the assembly line into verse.
This last line of thought Arnold develops in the second essay, "The Literary Influence of Academies," in which he dwells upon "the note of provinciality" in English literature, caused by remoteness from a "centre" of correct knowledge and correct taste.
"Everyone expected it to die," recalled Seth Faison, the chairman of the academy's board in the 1960s, in an essay by John Rockwell.
The Académie française awarded her its first literary prize for her essay On Glory in 1671.[17] The Academy of the Ricovrati in Padua elected her to membership in 1684.
(At one point in Arizona, essays of students attending an online academy run by K12 were outsourced to India for correction. K12 says the program was a pilot and was discontinued).
