Word: high
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Heath's big score seems as unlikely as breaking the bank at Monte Carlo, it isn't. Like a gambler hooked on high-stakes roulette, the general-interest segment of the $15 billion book-publishing industry is on a binge. In this go- go market, which represents one-third of an industry that includes books ranging from college texts to Bibles, editors are frantically putting bets on any potential best sellers. In recent months, the spin of the wheel has made not only a construction worker but also a Yale history professor and several fresh college graduates richer than they...
...words of Random House's Epstein, about "getting Faulkner on TV." Pointing to a promising first novel on his desk, he muses, "This just turned up the way these things do. But if the book is a success, we may never publish him again. His price may be too high...
...comes from a family of solemnity and seriousness," Riesman says, noting that Bok's mother was a friend of writers W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. "He grew up in an environment of high seriousness, and he maintains that...
...family placed a high priority on education,according to Watson. But the school authorities inBrooklyn didn't assign an equally high value toWatson's education, he says. Classified aslearning disabled in elementary school for noparticular reason, Watson continued his career inthe public schools during the height of the BlackPower movement and the urban riots of the late1960s...
Wilson: It's important, I think, to remember that Harvard's low rate is linked to its unusual way of tenuring faculty...The number of women who received Ph.Ds in the 1970s and 1960s was not high, and people who are tenured are senior in age. It takes a while for that pool to go through the system. I will be delighted when the workforce in academia is more evenly distributed. I think it will be beneficial for students and certainly beneficial for scholarship in general. I'm not knowledgeable enough about Harvard to know if it is an unusual...