Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business of networking is tricky. The question of compatibility--that is, how to make different brands of computers "talk" to each other--is still befuddling scientists in both academia and private industry. Until this happens, networking--here and elsewhere--will remain primitive...
Another difference between departments is the job market. Overall, academia has become in the last few years a "buyer's market," with too few positions for too many scholars. But the situation varies by field. In the humanities and languages--south of the Yard, as Whitla says--young teachers are reportedly hardest off. "I was very pleased to get this job," says one assistant professor. "I had trouble finding a job...I try to operate in a way that will make it easier for me to find another...
...their self-respect with sexual power-trips. Most daring and compelling of all, the authors cite psychological theories which postulate that much of an adult's self-image is formed in high school; they then extend that observation to point out that many men intelligent enough to have chosen academia as a career were probably ostracized in high school as wimps, lost out on social life to the football stars, and have carried a sense of sexual inadequacy or insecurity all the way into middle life and their contacts with younger women...
...THIS STARTED on a subway train somewhere near the Charles stop about two weeks into the fall of freshman year. Two classmates and I were taking the train into Boston late at night. We had no destination. We were three Harvard freshmen, newly burdened with the angst of academia, drowning in Harvard and all its implications. "This is great," someone said. "This is exactly what I needed: to get away...
...other McCarthy-era victims, he could not find work in academia or elsewhere for a year and a hall after the incident. He supported himself doing private research for others during that time, until Columbia offered him a position, where he remains today as a professor of sociology and history...