Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what he had created, he felt cheated; his talent was too limited and so was what it produced," Yardley says. Lardner, despite the encouragement of Fitzgerald and Max Perkins, an editor at Scribner's, never wrote a full-length novel. When he died of tuberculosis at the age of 48, his work had petered out and he was writing purely to make enough money to support his family...
...specialist in medieval Russian history who, at age 42, has already spent 22 years at Harvard, Keenan says the country and its graduate schools are entering a period of considerable "aggregate statistical turbulence. The question is, where will Harvard fit in to these statistics? We can't expect to live always in the style to which we've become accustomed." The new dean cites the studies with just a trace of resignation: Between now and 1990, as many academic appointments will open up as during the two-year period of 1965-66. That translates into about 4800 college jobs openings...
Keenan speaks with trepidation about a piece of federal legislation now under consideration which he says could have a "disastrous impact" on the already none-too-optimistic job picture if it is passed. Congress is now considering outlawing mandatory retirement as a form of age discrimination. Keenan cites studies which show that such a move could eliminate as much as 80 per cent of the projected academic job openings during the 1980s. ("Professors are obscenely longlived." Keenan says.) With the law in effect, as few as 600 academic appointments per year may be available nationwide at that time. That...
...that Keenan the academic should find himself engrossed in the trials and tribulations of the academic market. It is a market with which Keenan has never known any problems. The specialist in medieval Russian history was given the unofficial nod for a tenured appointment in 1968, at the tender age of 33, only two years after he received his Ph.D., and joined the Harvard faculty...
...been more thoroughly textured with contemporary history or more rigorously reluctant to offer pat solutions. Near the end, Daniel tells his ex-wife's sister, a woman he once loved and now loves again: "I don't know how people like us were meant to live this age, Jane. When it gives you only two alternatives...feel deprived or feel guilty. Play liberal or play blind. It seems to me that either way we're barred from living life as it was meant...