Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Russell A. Simpson, director of financial aid at the Law School, said he was not surprised that the Business School's student expense account exceeded their own by some...
...assured that, indeed, you were in the right place. Yes, the glib man at the lectern would eventually show some important connection between hyenas and humans, a connection meant to explain not just general behavioral imperatives such as the desire to servive, but also the psychological nuances that could account for complex social institutions and hierarchies...
...taken seriously when conditions warranted it. In addition, I reject the cynicism inherent in this objection. I know that some members of any organization privately see it only as a stepping-stone, but I would wager that out of the 85 members of the assembly, those apathetic souls would account for a small minority...
That conclusion appeared in A Child Called Noah (1972), Greenfeld's hypnotic day-by-day account of how a family survives and continues to love under the pressures of caring for a brain-damaged child. In 200 pages of brief takes, Greenfeld created a whole familial world. A Place for Noah is a sequel to that earlier diary, and together the two books are a contemporary classic that directly transmits the experience, emotions, conflicts, practical difficulties and even the humor that can attend such a domestic tragedy. Entry for March 5, 1973: "Last night we had Chinese food. Noah...
Last year John Jerome became a counterculture hero with the publication of Truck, an earthy account of his yearlong effort to rehabilitate a 1950 Dodge pickup. Now he turns his restive mind to loftier topics. On Mountains wittily bypasses the customary because-it-is-there rationale to examine the fascination and terror of peaks and promontories...