Word: limerickization
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Former Assistant Professor of History Patricia N. Limerick found the phenomenon of slackerhood so pervasive that she wrote an article on what she calls the "Harvard phantom...
...Limerick, who served on the Student Affairs committee in the early 1980s, says she was most disturbed by these phantoms who "had all the faculty resources of Harvard available to them but did not make anything of that opportunity...
...Professor Feldstein: A lascivious limerick...
...election campaign. In the arts category, Wynton Marsalis won the music award for "Blood on the Fields," an epic composition on slavery; Frank McCourt's book "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" took the prize for biography. The book focused on McCourt's youth in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. The prizes are presented by Columbia University every year and include a gold medal for the public service award and a $5000 check for all other Pulitzer Prize winners. Having disqualified some entries this year because they were online news efforts, the Pulitzer Board is appointing a committee to decide whether...
...ASHES (Scribner). When it comes to sad tales of childhood hardships, "nothing can compare with the Irish version." So writes Frank McCourt, a retired New York City public school teacher, and then proceeds to prove his point. His memoir of growing up poor in the dank slums of Limerick radiates misery, humor and the cheerful humanity that got him through...