Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Others express concern that the star system skews the age distribution of senior faculty and overlooks young, potentially brilliant scholars. "The procedures prescribed by Harvard for making tenure appointments worry me for this reason--they may be somewhat slanted against younger people. In my field of English, the younger a person is, the less likely he is heard of outside the university. There might be the greatest Wunderkind in the world and we might know that but outside people won't Perkins says...
...century or as psychologically pathological in the 20th, they seem to cavalierly attribute malicious motives to doctors, suggesting they are the vanguard of a sexist society. These doctors, Ehrenreich and English contend, seek out rebelliousness among women and squelch it by spiriting away the sick patient before she can express her protest. The doctors "betrayed the trust" innocent women placed in them. By focusing on the theories and treatments the doctors invented to keep women in their place, the authors evade an analysis of the processes of social repression...
...long ago that Turkey had to bear the brunt of American pressure because of its poppy cultivation. Turkey then was an easy scapegoat for the concerned parents of American drug addicts and the U.S. administration. It is certainly ironic that "Midnight Express" puts the country once again in the culprit's seat: this time not because it is lax in its regulation of opium cultivation, but because it is harsh with misguided foreigners who try to smuggle hashish out of the country. If Billy Hayes got a "raw deal" from the Turkish government, this was due not to any wickedness...
...lack of subtitles, Mr. Contreras may be excused for not quite grasping the motives of the Turkish government in sentencing Billy Hayes to life imprisonment. Nonetheless, I find it inadmissible to acclaim a movie which is so outrageously biased in its depiction of a whole nation. "Midnight Express" is offensive only not only to Turks, but to all self-respecting human beings. Dani Rodrik...
...however, want to express one small misgiving, and that has to do with what seems to me perhaps an excessive stress on the difficulty of an Ox-bridge education relative to an American one, or at least a Harvard...