Word: hourglasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This structural problem--what Buell has calledthe hourglass shape of the job market inacademia--has squeezed the opportunities at alluniversities, meaning that Harvard is competingwith them for young, talented professors...
There "seem to be entry level jobs or more senior jobs...more senior than people can get when they reach the point of being promoted," Buell says. "It's not that there are zero positions but the shape of the chart looks more like an hourglass than a pyramid...
...that I've prophesied the rise and triumph of the hourglass-emcee, I have some things I think that the female rapper has to do. We have to convince America that we struggle too, to form the master narratives of people who don't look like us. Now some of our older sisters have paved the way for us. In fact, since the release of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who've considered suicide when the rainbow is enough, Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Michelle Wallace's Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, there...
...compares the role of the senior tutor in the process to the middle of an hourglass--the candidate pool above, the House below, with the tutor as the point-person in between...
...compares the role of the senior tutor in theprocess to the middle of an hourglass--thecandidate pool above, the House below, with thetutor as the point-person in between...