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Privately, however, the department sent Kearns a letter telling her that she must drop her plan to co-author the book, return to the original manuscript and show "evidence of publication" such as galleys or proofs before her appointment can go through...
...candidates primarily on "scholarly output" and "good teaching performance"--was designed to consider candidates with long records in academia and whose published work is often the most important "input" into the decision. Here the system was faced with a talented 31-year-old woman who had only one, incomplete manuscript to show for her years at Harvard. In the back of everyone's mind, one professor said, was the psychological effect of the affirmative action program, making her appoinment more likely and helping her to obtain a unanimous recommendation in October...
...having second thoughts. Their subsequent actions indicate they don't feel they made a mistake in approving Kearns, and still consider her a brilliant, if eccentric, scholar who deserves a chair here. But they made an exception to the rules of the game by not waiting for her completed manuscript. Now they're holding off to fit her appointment into the more traditional pattern of tenure...
...begin the recollections of "Squeaky" Fromme, who, like so many others in the Manson gang, wrote her rambling memoirs and harbored vague hopes of getting them published as a book. TIME has obtained part of a neatly typed manuscript that is a sometimes semiliterate mixture of blissful and tawdry. It is laced with descriptions of sexual activity and full of almost self-consciously repeated Freudian cliches about rebelliousness against parents along with a yearning to be dominated by a strong father figure. Apart from her contradictory beginning, Squeaky Fromme most of all expresses her adulation of Charles Manson and describes...
...scenes or scientific inventions−represented in this show. Arab culture was pragmatic. Almost everything the Italian Renaissance knew of medicine and chemistry, for instance, was transmitted to it through Arabic versions of Greek texts, which often required drawings of the human body. The Freer show contains several scientific manuscripts. One is a splendidly decorated version of a herbal by the Greek naturalist Dioscorides. Another is a fascinating 14th century manuscript on water clocks, paddle wheels and the like, al-Jazari's Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices...