Word: feuded
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...mails to his father," it begins, updating Forster's blasé opener, "One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister." Thereafter, Smith revamps Forster's Edwardian battle of wills between the liberal-minded Schlegel sisters and the snobbish Wilcox clan into a modern academic feud that sweeps up the families of Howard Belsey, a white, English, radically-minded art-history professor at a prestigious New England liberal-arts college, and guest lecturer Monty Kipps, a black, traditionalist art historian who campaigns against affirmative action and other sacred cows of the liberal establishment. The story rambles...
...FEUD OF THE WEEK...
Harper wrote that he “saw a pattern” in Summers’ public remarks on women and minorities, citing his 2002 feud with former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, his comments at a Native American conference in September 2004, and his now infamous remarks on women in science in January...
Harper wrote that he “saw a pattern” in Summers’ public remarks on women and minorities, citing his 2002 feud with former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, his comments at a Native American conference in September 2004, and his now infamous remarks on women in science in January...
Princeton assistant professor Jesse M. Rothstein ’95 set off the public feud with Hoxby last spring, after he published a 69-page challenge to her 2000 paper asserting that he could not replicate Hoxby’s results. Rothstein additionally alleged that Hoxby—a well-known and influential figure in economics—delayed releasing data that would have allowed others to evaluate her conclusions...