Word: field
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surgery, she has been serenaded, dissected, romanticized and analyzed by generations of literati, medical men, scientists and students. If these men fixed their eyes intently on the figure of woman, however, the historian remained somewhat more aloof. Usually, in his considered judgement, women were essentially unimportant to his field ('the study of man'), and he dealt with them incidentally...
...worked more this year on setting up the plays," she says. "Last year I couldn't do anything more than dribble. I was not a team player. I just couldn't understand how plays moved on the field...
...that he is involved in a "race." The thrill of a good race appeals to him. Rather than being harmful to the research, such pressure probably stimulates better work, Gilbert says, adding, "It can be detrimental, or one can simply view it as part of the effervescence of the field of science. It's not a question of added pressure. I like to rush," he insists...
...concerned, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion (reluctantly since I have a Cambridge PhD) that Harvard graduate work, at least in my field, is rather more rigorous than what one finds at Ox-bridge and, generally, a better preparation for university teaching. It is true that Ox-bridge PhD candidates are given a great deal of independence, but very few of those I was with at Cambridge considered this "exhilarating." I think we though of it more in the way of benign neglect. Peter Dale Senior Tutor, Adams House
Adapted by Barbara Field...