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...agreewith their work," says Alice A. Jardine, associateprofessor of Romance languages and literature."It's not just a question of sexual difference,but very often one of epistemological andpolitical differences," she says. She cities as anexample the raging debate over what books shouldbe included in the literary canon, a debate thatdivides scholars along political and sexual lines...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Tenuring Women Profs: Not the 7% Solution | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...Canada Safeway, eating bread baked by Weston Foods and spreading it with Skippy peanut butter or Hellmann's mayonnaise from Best Foods. They sleep on Simmons mattresses and stoke up on Crispy Crunch candy bars, made by a Weston subsidiary. Any photographs commissioned by O.C.O. will be shot with Canon cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: The Olympian Games That Companies Play | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...tube led from the exhaust pipe to the front seat of the silver Toyota where an Oxford neighbor last week discovered the body of a distinguished English clergyman, Canon Gareth Bennett. The suicide of the university don and historian ordinarily might have been a sad but briefly noted counterpoint to the Christmas season. Instead, the tragedy was catapulted into prominence by the fact that only four days earlier Bennett had become embroiled in a stupendous furor in the Church of England. The uproar, it seems clear, drove him to his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death and The Archbishop | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...diehard fans, Rocky Horror has spilled off the screen and into real life. Part of the canon is having a live revue act along with the film, word for word, line for line...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Some Terrible Thrills | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

Gladys Van Horne, another Martins Ferry native in attendance, suggests that some people around town may be keeping a tight lid on their natural elation. "They're proud, I'm sure -- more than might express it." Hardly anything in the poet's canon has the power to irk or alarm this woman, currently an editor for the Wheeling News-Register. "No, because I know all that happened," she says simply. "We were not intellectuals," Van Horne cautions when quizzed about Wright's near total early obscurity. "We were a coal- mining and a steel-mill town. That's where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: A Town and the Bard Who Left It | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

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