Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individuals feel that it is the will of God or justly earned, while small differences, if arbitrary, will often seem unfair. Orderlies in a hospital compare their income with that of a nurse, but not that of a doctor." Most Americans live by equality of category and are content to move with it-the going wage scale, the union member's seniority, the soldier's promotion in rank and the civil servant's slow rise to a rug, a water carafe and a secretary...
...Cramer of Harvard, who without a doubt has the best column title in the Ivies ("Creme de la Cramer"), is also lauded for the content of those columns...
...first page of the second section every morning, passing up the meatier news stories in hopes of discovering one of the delectable morsels served up by Israel Shenker. With the publication of Words and Their Masters, Shenker gluttons can now gorge them-selves to their heart's content on a collection of 67 interviews and articles, all of which are concerned with some aspect of human communication...
...most part Shenker is content to remain in the province of words--an area he knows like the back of his hand. He seems equally at home conversing with Nabokov and Asimov, I.F. Stone and I.B. Singer, Georges Simenon and Alain Robbe-Grillet. Perhaps he is most comfortable with writers like S.J. Perelman (the subject of three separate interviews) and Brigid Brophy, who share his penchant for groan-inducing puns and shameless plays on words. Parelman, Shenker tells us, has a myna bird, "scion of an ancient mynasty,...and wherever Perelman goes the bird is sure to go; it followed...
Four years at Harvard had taught him to do this extremely well. Someone once observed to Stevens that college was just an exercise in learning to pass off form as content. This observation had proven correct. Its proof came sophomore year in a tutorial with a senior professor (Steven's department was a small one). A five-page paper properly foot-noted with a perfectly indented bibliography was rewarded; where a classmate's similar paper, bereft of precision but original, was relegated to the B-minus doldrums...