Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wanted to explain to you why I am attached to tenure, and also to explain one positive element of uncapping the retirement age. I think most people view tenure primarily as a protection of academic freedom. I have never looked at it that way exclusively. It seems to me that tenure has another very important role. I like to feel that professors in a university are not employees. I look upon them as shareholders, if you will, of the institution. It represents a kind of social contract between the individual and the institution. We are not people who are extremely...
Kraus is above all an administrator, who sees efficiency as a crucial element of his "compact with the voters." "You are witnessing one of the failures of that compact," he says point to the open windows in his overheated fifth-floor office. Grinning, Kraus explains the state renovated the building a few years back and put the heating system on the roof, where it must fight the natural tendency of heat to rise and force water down five floors into the freezing basement. It is with that kind of administrative inefficiency that Kraus feels his experience at GSAS best equips...
...disturbing element here, however, the one this story exposed to the air, is the implication that these processes, which satisfy that basic human desire and which do so by manipulating a basic human act, are merely mechanical, technologically clever, new testaments to American know-how. Pregnant women often joke gently about their offspring "in the oven," but in a joke-less context, where the baby in question is being cooked up on consignment, there is cause for real worry. With all the potential joys of scientifically created parenthood, the last thing one wishes to encourage is the impersonal approach. What...
Theory is currently taught in the department not as a separate discipline, as Lewin teaches it, but as an element of composition...
...That element is Berlin's major strength. He does not only give us a narrow, well-defined text about O'Neill. Rather, he sacrifices a small amount of detail and scope to share with us the cardinal doctrines of O'Neill's philosophy, With this purpose in mind. Berlin is able to use evidence from Greek tragedy. Nietzsche's Dionysian philosophy and Freudian psychology to touch that fog that surrounded O'Neill. Though, as Berlin himself admits, his subject "wrote with a burning intensity that eludes description or analysis," that broadened picture makes the book worthwhile. O'Neill gazed into...