Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every junior faculty member at Harvard contemplates such bleak prospects. Yet almost every assistant professor here shares anxiety over an increasingly tight academic job market, the tug of war between teaching and research, and the driving need to publish, to gain prominence in his chosen field. The post of junior faculty member itself is something of an anomaly. Not yet established in the profession, the assistant professor stands below the senior faculty in status and in age. But he outranks the graduate student in intellectual achievement and position. As one assistant professor puts it. "Junior faculty are in an intellectual...
...many do not. While no one disputes Harvard's opportunities and while few complain of overt ill treatment, many Harvard assistant professors cite barriers to a fulfilling experience including treatment varying among departments, frustrations of the bleak tenure prospects and the struggle to research adequately and teach at the same time...
...desert road. Soon they are followed by other predators: wolves, jackals, hyenas and occasionally even a leopard. One after another, they partake of the roadside feast, while ignoring the nearby human observers. This remarkable nocturnal ritual is repeated once every two weeks at five locales in the bleak wastes of the Negev and Judean deserts, supervised by Israel's Nature Reserve Authority...
What's disturbing is not that people like to dress fancy and have a good time--even children enjoy playing house and wearing crowns. It is that the ideologies of these liberal Kennedys, Galbraiths, student politicos and journalists stand in bleak contrast to their elitist lifestyles and pretensions. How will Americans view a lavish black-tie affair to open a school of public service...
...stake, along with 35 Senate seats, 36 governorships and most state and local offices. Nobody expects any radical changes in party strengths: the Democrats will probably, retain their 61-vote margin in the Senate and lose only half a dozen of their 287 seats in the House, a bleak prospect for the Republicans in an off-year election. In much of the country, indeed, many key issues are purely regional ? motorboat restrictions in Minnesota's Boundary Waters canoe area, a city charter revision in Philadelphia, a referendum on homosexual teachers in California ?yet the money question...