Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Verne W. Vance Jr. '54, who represents Harvard in its legal skirmishes involving the $350 million Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), said the University will file a response to the City of Brookline's Suffolk County Superior Court appeal by the end of this week...
...Harvard lawyer Vance said the Brookline appeal confuses "real" and "statistical" deaths. The study, Vance said, did not predict that four people would die, but said that because of scientific uncertainty, the four deaths are "the upper level that the scientific evidence can not rule...
Citing David Lee Roth's rendition of the 1960's Beach Boys' California Girls," Ginsburg said. "They took an oldie song and brought it into the 80s with a lot of fun and a lot of appeal...
...deeper level, though, we see Eco the academic struggling to understand his unexpected success. Popular success that is, Far as a member of the academic community. Eco must have been taught that the popular appeal of a person's work is irrelevant to its ultimate importance. That's how an Egyptologist can justify his life's effort against that of a scriptwriter for Fridays. In Postscript, Eco tries to tell his colleagues that he hasn't pandered to the public, by offering explanations of why The Name of the Rose was such a hit with unsophisticated readers." Says Professor...
This sorr of condescending professor talk limits Postscript's appeal, and unfortunately so. Eco rather interesting questions about literature and the craft of writing in general, but it's no fun to watch an author be little must of his audience. If you read The Name of the Rose on your lunch break at the assembly line, you might find its Postscript a had insulting. But no matter, if you go to Harvard and level The Name of the Rose, you'll get a kick out of Postscript...