Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear last fall that these fledgling icemen would blossom as they have. The Don Sweeneys, Lane MacDonalds, and Jerry Pawloskis came advertised as big recruits, but the key to the Class of '88 has been its lesser-known members...
...depressed areas may not be divorced from the the-socio-economic conditions which influence the statistic, sexual harassment may not be seperated from its larger framework, namely a university top-heavy with male faculty, leaving women in positions of powerlessness and vulnerability. The continuing position of women as the "lesser, as the "subordinate" in student-faculty and faculty faculty professional relationships only exacerbates the already pressing problem of sexual harassment at Harvard. True co-education mean not only that male and female students learn side by side but that women and men teach side by side too. Until such...
Mystery writers are especially prone to follow an exceptional early work with loads of lesser stories. Ellery Queen's later books, or, more recently, the sorry sequels Gregory Mcdonald wrote for Fletch, show writers struggling to regain the spark they had the first time around...
...Name of the Rose was such a hit with unsophisticated readers." Says Professor Eco: "I gave them back their fear and trembling in the face of sex, unknown languages, difficulties of thought, [and] mysteries of political life." He need the book to "construct the reader," leading even the lesser read into the patterns of thought of medieval scholastics. The Name of the Rose, Eco suggests, was not a sellout of academic reserve but a combination of scholarly work with the appearance of what the public wants. The Name of the Rose promised "sex and a criminal plot where the guilty...
...reported, its message is a dramatic one, says Dr. George Blackburn, a leading nutritionist at Harvard's Deaconess hospital. "Now we can stop fiddle- faddling around and see this for what it is," he says. "Obesity is a disease." Also significant, says Blackburn, is the panel's concern with lesser degrees of overweight. In the past, he says, warnings have focused mainly on the 11 million Americans who are severely obese...