Word: academia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sociology, to examine carefully the appearance of sociobiological ideas in their disciplines. It is not merely a matter of exposing the lack of scientific foundation for these theories. The recent events in Europe show us that it is not that great a leap from quasi-scientific theories in academia to their political application...
...ACADEMIA SPREADS its clutches far and wide. The academic industry gets bigger and bigger, and people lose their jobs if they don't publish. Every field becomes fair prey for new books. But the academic jargon doesn't fit everything--there's something especially out of place in the sort of analytic attention which Maurice Yacowar gives to Woody Allen in his new book, Loser Takes All: The Comic Art of Woody Allen. The cult of Woody Allen would be inexplicable if he didn't touch on some particular mood special to his times--the anxious defeated mood...
...JUST IN the movie theatres. He's reached the course directories, too, and now the bookshops display a new-spawned product of academia, Loser Takes All by Maurice Yacowar of Brock University, Ontario. For Yacowar, Allen is 'a serious, probing artist with a consistent and distinctive vision.' His films are indeed suspiciously clone-like, but 'serious, probing'? By what standards? Well, says Yacowar, Manhattan can be compared with 'Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion, another classic analysis of the decay of western culture.' Oh, and 'like Kafka, Allen makes Jews of us all.' We might wonder just what manner...
...sociology, to examine carefully the appearance of sociobiological ideas in their disciplines. It is not merely a matter of exposing the lack of scientific foundation for these theories. The recent events in Europe show us that it is not that great a leap from quasi-scientific theories in academia to their political application...
...Shakespeareans, graphic artists, historians and musicians flown in from Norway, Israel, England, Canada, France, India and West Germany, as well as from the U.S. Most of them no longer consider themselves to be innovators merely because they work with computers. These days money does not invariably fall out of academia's apple trees when the word computer appears in grant proposals. So says Stephen V.F. Waite, a research associate in computing in the humanities at Dartmouth, and an assistant professor of classics...