Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member of an outside committee established to help the English Department make six tenure appointments left the panel after accusations that he sexually harrassed a student...
Princeton Professor of English Thomas MacFarland said in an interview last week that he withdrew temporarily from the committee in February, after a graduate student accusation of sexual harrassment led to his suspension from Princeton's faculty...
...recent weeks, after public furor over MacFarland at Princeton mounted, the professor said he decided to retire early from his post and also from the English Department's outside committee...
...world in the past few years has, in fact, profoundly changed. In Tiananmen Square last week, many of the demonstrators' signs were written in English. The students knew they were enacting a planetary drama, that their words and images in that one place would powder into electrons and then recombine on millions of little screens in other places, other minds, around the world...
...world is exactly Salman Rushdie's Indian characters passively seat- belted in their flight from Bombay to London, then blown apart by a random, idiot bomb and soon seen pinwheeling down to a soft landing off the English coast -- the England where Kipling comes home to roost and the empire will implode and intermingle...