Word: crit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adoptive family, the friendship of an old fisherman and a troubling affair with an older woman, he succeeds in learning some humbling lessons. Of course that means turning west, to face life at home. Like his hero, Schwartz avails himself of no shortcuts. Innocent of slickness or lit-crit smarts, his novel has authority and a refreshing flinty charm...
...People who talk about the breakdown in the relations between the signifier and the signified and use all sorts of lit-crit terms like "transgress" and "privilege" as a verb...
Mallay Charters '90 said she saw the words "Cheap Lit Crit: Nasty!' scrawled in red ink" on the third stanza of a sexually explicit poem. "Cheap Lit. is accessible because it is postered and someone was responding to that accessibility spontaneously," she said...
...Ph.D.s in English. Both The New Yorker and The Nation magazines last week documented nearly half a century of FBI surveillance of more than 100 prominent American writers, including six Nobel laureates (Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill and John Steinbeck). The gumshoe lit crit was sometimes comically inept. FBI files, for example, described the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay as possibly subversive because she used the "analogy of the mole boring under the garden...
...addition, last spring a large majority of the faculty voted to offer Visiting Professor David Trubek of the University of Wisconsin a lateral appointment, but Bok overturned that decision at the request of a small group of professors. Trubek, a crit, was opposed by the conservatives. This case was the first time the president of the University overturned a decision of the Law School faculty...