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...together buy 13% of the nation's textbooks (in contrast with Texas' 6%), will hold a meeting later this month for interested educators. Says Honig: "If Texas can influence books that much on little matters, think how powerful we would be if we could all agree on criteria for textbooks...
...implicit in this statement is the value judgment that such singlemindedness is a good trait. The author ends her book with a chapter titled "Ambition." Why not end it with a chapter titled "Compassion"? Perhaps comparisons of men and women should begin with a questioning of male-dictated criteria of evaluation...
Alan Williamson, one of a group of younger academic poets who were profoundly influenced by Lowell, is especially familiar with the phrase and its accompanying problems. In a new book, Introspection and Contemporary Poetry, Williamson defends self-revelation, distinguishing several types of introspective poetry, and suggests new criteria by which to judge contemporary poetry. He also substitutes for "confessional poetry" the phrase "personal poetry" as a more general--and less loaded--term...
Each company is graded on five criteria: pay, benefits, job security, chance to move up and ambience. Goldman Sachs, an investment banker, is one of the best-paying companies. It has a generous profit-sharing plan, and last year gave many employees a year-end bonus of 25% of their salaries. IBM offers such benefits as free physical examinations for those over 35, dental insurance, adoption assistance (up to $1,000) and two country clubs that employees can join for $5 a year. Hewlett-Packard provides free coffee and doughnuts twice a day and sometimes throws informal beer busts...
...coyly hints that one of his 27 novels might round off the list nicely. If so, Dark Lady is not the one. The book is too casual and sketchy, with a string of improbable, scurrilously farcical episodes serving for a plot. It measures up to only one of the criteria that Burgess applies in 99 Novels: the novelists' capacity to create "human beings whom we accept as living creatures...