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...sharpest increase in female faculty members has been at the lowest level, that of instructor. Ten years ago, one-third of all instructors were women, compared with 43.5 per cent this year...
David Perkins's short memorial essay on Ezra Pound as the instructor of a great generation of writers now dead is an appreciation and not (though it could be) an invidious comparison between Pound's time and ours; but there is a point to his repeating Pound's advice: to remember the old virtues of economy, force and precision; not to be afraid to make readers think; to remember that poetry should be at least as well-written as prose. And Marc Leib's review of a posthumous collection of Sylvia Plath's play and poems has some points...
Herrnstein is condescending towards the radicals who, he says, damaged his student-instructor relationship in Soc Sci 15, deluged the Harvard community with leaflets and posters, misquoted him, accused him and disrupted his attempts to speak publicly at Harvard and other campuses...
...describe the Egyptian role, we called on Correspondent Wilton Wynn of our Rome bureau, who began a two-year stint as a journalism instructor at Cairo's American University in 1945; later served as an Associated Press reporter in Beirut and Cairo and wrote a book called Nasser of Egypt: The Search for Dignity, which was published in 1959. Wynn joined TIME in 1962 and has intermittently covered the Middle East ever since. "I find in this younger generation," he says, "a new type of Ara-more sophisticated in political views, but still suffering from the same frustrations...
...area needing little attention was the metals division, which provides more than half the company's profits and almost a third of its revenues. The keystone of this division is Luria Bros. & Co., the world's largest scrap-metal firm. Ablon, a onetime business instructor at Ohio State who came to Ogden from Luria in 1962, is satisfied with the conglomerate's progress but far from smug about it. Having got Ogden moving again, Ablon dryly remarks: "The most positive thing we can do now is not to blow...