Word: critics
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...gave up fiction to make a profession of his passion: the study of words. Over five decades, he compiled 16 erudite lexicons devoted to slang, cliches and other aspects of the language; his last effort, A Dictionary of Catch Phrases (1977), contained 3,000 entries. "The Word King," as Critic Edmund Wilson dubbed him, savaged linguistic abuses (he found American sociopsychological jargon especially "pitiable") and saluted plain, popular usage. Language, he said,'"was created by people, not in a laboratory...
...main impetus has come from the environmentalist movement. Conservationists recognized that the preservation of man-made environments and the reuse of finite resources should be as much a matter of concern as the natural ecology. Energy shortages and the faltering economy gave the movement immediacy. Old buildings, one critic has noted, are "a kind of stored-up energy," and they are in place, whereas the steel, glass and aluminum devoured by skyscrapers and shopping centers require huge quantities of energy to produce and assemble. (According to one federal study, an existing building can operate for 16 years on the amount...
Harvard's Divinity School has a six-year-old women's studies program that critics say may be just the sort of island Lerner described. The program brings to the school five "research-resource associates," women doing doctoral or post-doctoral research in theology with a feminist perspective. The women teach courses, do research and supposedly encourage regular faculty to take up women's studies interests and incorporate them into the regular curriculum. After a Ford Foundation-funded study of the first five years of the program, the Divinity faculty this year voted overwhelmingly to continue the program for eight...
...least one honorary usually goes to a literary figure, and Lillian Hellman, the playwright and novelist, seems like a top contender, while Susan Sontag, literary critic and aesthete, may also place...
Within the University the Faculty is not only a critic of the Corporation's investment policy, but a potential arbitrater between student anti-apartheid groups and the Corporation. Next year faculty and students must coalesce to force the Corporation to accept a more coherent, well-drafted investment policy. In such a coalition the Faculty, of all University groups, can best articulate the anti-apartheid arguments students have pressed on the Corporation for the last two years. The emergence of many Faculty members as the "third force" at Harvard presents the most significant advance anti-apartheid groups at the University have...