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...Lardner is partly correct. There are such ample resources in the United States today to finance the training of teachers and scholars that the Woodrow Wilson School emphatically does wish to use its own resources to train people who will enter that very broad domain known as public affairs. But there are increasingly large numbers of public affairs problems, particularly those requiring highly sophisticated techniques of analysis, which are only approachable by people whose education extends through the Ph.D. level. That is why it sometimes advises its graduates to enter other Ph.D. programs. Law school is a different matter. Those...
...titanic creative labors have liberated the language. They have done nothing of the sort; the language is incapable of liberty, one man's tongue being tied to the next man's ear. But if Joyce failed to liberate the language, instead attempting to make it his private domain, he did try to overthrow the English ascendancy of grammar and set up his own fabulous linguistic kingdom...
...would the Columbia faculty have considered a denunciation of the Vietnam war, such as the mathematicians proposed, within their rightful domain? "Denunciation might have gotten through the faculty," Shenton suggested in a Crimson interview last week, "But it would have obscured the more immediate issue...
John William Gardner, 54, the so-and-so once removed from Ribicoff (former Cleveland Mayor Anthony Celebrezze came in between), takes wry pleasure in recalling the bloodcurdling things he heard about his sprawling domain when he first took over in August 1965. Then he adds: "I think that people just don't say that any more...
Trade books make up the third and most uncertain domain of the publishing landscape. Still, 250-odd firms are now in this field-perhaps because it offers by far the most intellectual excitement, perhaps because it is so easy to enter. Anyone with a manuscript and a few thousand dollars can do it. In 1951, the Witkower Press, a one-man, one-book publishing house in Hartford, Conn., brought out Arthritis and Common Sense, and has since sold over 250,000 copies...