Word: english
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minority faculty statistics for 1986-87 speak for themselves. Out of 434 positions in 10 departments--Economics, Government, Psychology, Sociology, English, History, VES, Fine Arts, Chemistry, and Biology--only 16 are filled by minority faculty. Eight of these are foreign scholars...
Faculty administrators said they were alsoconcerned that April testing policies are notuniform for different concentrations. CUEstatistics show that more than 80 percent of allstudents eligible for the exam option come fromonly six concentrations: Economics, English,Government, History, History and Literature, andSocial Studies...
...Index discriminates against athletes. There is no such index for musicians or actors or poets. Imagine the Harvard English Department being unable to approach a promising writer because his or her Index score was below...
...very skillful reduction of [the poem]," said Helen H. Vendler, Kenan Professor of English and American Literature and Language. "The essence of it is kept and one feels the interplay between one's dead friends and oneself and that is what the poem is about...
...conventional morality. In others the illness manifests itself in a restless pursuit of the usual home remedies for boredom: drugs, alcohol and, of course, outrageous sex. You could blame this malaise on Kenya's equatorial weather -- bound to have a curious effect on the dank blue blood of English aristocrats. More likely, though, the idle colonial social climate, circa 1940-41, is doing them in. With too much time on their hands, and not enough money in their purses, these stranded idlers have to fill the endless days and nights on the cheap...