Word: limerick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of the two bodies say they fear committee meetings would not prove workable and uninhibited if students and campus press representatives attended. "It's hard to make free discussion when the eyes of the world are upon you," explained Patricia N. Limerick, assistant professor of History and a member of the College Life Committee...
...Complete Clerihews gathers all 140 examples of the master's voice, along with the drawings that accompanied their publication (Bentley's illustrators included O.K. Chesterton and his own son Nicolas). This collection helps define the form. Unlike the limerick, its distant relative, the clerihew does not accommodate bawdiness or strong feelings of any other kind. Liberal in spirit, with some upper-class conservative leanings, Bentley roundly detested the Nazis. Yet his clerihew on the subject mocks rather than jeers...
...next day, the professors--Sidney Verba '53, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes and Patricia Limerick--told four members of the constitution committee during a breakfast meeting that because of a scheduling problem, the proposal most likely could not be reviewed by the entire Faculty until January. Even if the Faculty approved the document, it would be too late to include the $10 surcharge necessary to fund the council on students' term bills in time for the spring semester...
Literacy once meant the ability to read and write, and perhaps acquire familiarity with, say, Paradise Lost. Today, children who cannot even decipher a limerick are becoming what is known as "computer literate." Just as Gutenberg's press stimulated literacy in the 15th century, the emergence of the low-cost personal computer of the 1980s is making the knowledge of what computers can do an essential educational discipline...
...which will select the 1981-82 American Nieman Fellows in journalism. The members of the committee, chaired by James C. Thomson, Jr., curator of the Nieman Foundation, are: Nathan Glazer professor of Education and Sociology: David Kraslow, publisher of the Miami News and a 1962 Nieman fellow: Patricia Nelson Limerick, assistant professor of History: Frieda W. Morris, midwest bureau chief of NBC News; Garry Orren '68, a polling expert and associate professor of Public Policy: George Wilson, publisher of the Concord Monitor and William Woestendiek, executive editor of the Arizona Daily Star...