Word: glazer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sociology Professor Nathan Glazer cautioned that "nihilism" may not be nationally pervasive, adding that "there must be parts of the country where the teaching of openness is a worthwhile undertaking...
...home-video equipment. This week the company will launch its first attack, introducing a self-contained camera-videotape recorder that runs on narrow, 8-mm tape. The device will be smaller, lighter and easier to carry than most items now on the market, which use wider tape. Says Eugene Glazer, a leading photo-industry analyst for Dean Witter: "The new products are going to be very, very important. Small color-video-camera recorders will be the next big wave in consumer electronics...
...problems of Hispanic students stem more from language difficulty or from their economic class. Many Hispanic children who are unable to speak English have parents with little education who hold unskilled jobs; in school performance, these students are much like poor blacks and whites. Notes Harvard's Nathan Glazer: "If these students do poorly in English, they may be doing poorly in a foreign language...
Elkin, who suffers from a form of multiple sclerosis, has not received the recognition or income of lesser colleagues, desipite his overflow of talent and energy. So it is not difficult to see Glazer's trials and Messenger's messages as a form of special pleading. Fortunately, these episodes are not the whole story, merely parts of an epic that embraces 1,000 years of second-string citizenship. The novel's heroes are all named George Mills, from the Greatest Grandfather, an 11th century Northumbrian stableboy, to a furniture mover in East St. Louis...
...leader through the centuries, picking up the trash of kings and sultans, knights and janissaries. The last George graduates from shoving around middle-class furniture; now he repossesses the tables and chairs of ghetto blacks who default on their payments. In his off time, he accompanies the dying Mrs. Glazer to a Mexican Laetrile clinic where Elkin's patented mixture of slapstick and " strong emotions is administered...