Word: kenneth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Charles Krauthammer, John Leo, Melvin Maddocks, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
Despite its cheerless title, More Die of Heartbreak is a consistently funny variation on the theme of intellectual haplessness. Its narrator, Kenneth Trachtenberg, 35, is an assistant professor of Russian literature at a university in an unnamed "Rustbelt metropolis" in the Midwest. Raised in Paris by expatriate American parents, Kenneth has come back to the U.S. to be near his maternal uncle Benn Crader, a man in his 50s and an eminent botanist, revered by fellow specialists for his work on Arctic lichens. Kenneth's obsession with Benn stems from a conviction that "you have no reason to exist unless...
Hoping to record a collaboration that would lead to a revolution in human thought, Kenneth is stuck instead with a farce out of Balzac. Benn's wife and in-laws have plans for him. Matilda can hardly be supported as is her wont on her husband's salary of $60,000. But Benn has assets he has absentmindedly forgotten: an uncle of his, a notable crook in the disintegrating local Democratic machine, once bilked him and Kenneth's mother out of huge proceeds from the sale of family property. Dr. Layamon tells Benn man to man: "Well, as you will...
...went through debates similar to the current B-School conflict 10 to 15 years ago, according to Edwards, who says that every medical school in the country now includes at least one ethics course in its curriculum. "It's impossible to practice good medicine without practicing ethical medicine," says Kenneth J. Ryan, Ladd professor of obstetrics and gynecology, who is one of the senior ethics fellows...
...professor who taught this course, Kenneth E. Goodpaster, was denied tenure this year, and will leave the Business School in the fall. Senior Associate Dean of the Business School Thomas R. Piper said that the course would be offered next year, but would not say whether an ethics expert will be hired to teach...