Word: demure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Exuding the charm of a used car salesman and the taste of John Rivers, Sister Serena markets her "kids" like a Romco television ad. "How about a conversation piece?" she asks, singling out her single Black charge. "Something South of the Border?" Our caricatured Ozzie and Harriet demur. "We already have a gardener." Finally they take Mouse, and Piper in short order leads what has become by now his gang in a reunion-bound break from the Bleeding Heart...
Gerrity and other administrators demur when asked to cite specific recruiting efforts that have broken down over the issues of salary. "There are all kinds of reasons people withdraw from being considered for tenured openings," says Robert Kaufman. Gerrity's predecessor as associate dean for financial affairs. And officials flatly deny that any professor has ever left Harvard out of dissatisfaction with his salary. "I've been dean for nine years," says Rosovsky, "and I can't think of a single individual who left here on a salary issue...
...wrote for the Boston Phoenix earlier this year, I can only conclude that Mr. Edelstein sees me as another of these "less literate disciples" of Mr. Simon's. I would readily admit to being less literate than Mr. Simon; as to being a follower of his, I would respectfully demur. But does it really matter? More to the point, I am hurt and chagrined to be assailed in such a surreptitious way by a fellow critic for whom I have only the profoundest respect...