Word: metropolises
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We all know that things didn't get going, intellectually speaking, in the great metropolis until a century later. But Bender doesn't focus on these early years. Rather, he uses the colonial history to underline the central choice for New York intellectuals: whether to be isolated academics or cosmopolitan...
Using these lives as a capacious data base, Bender claims that New York is America's only possible intellectual salvation. Only a large, bustling and--most important--creative metropolis can lure professors back to the People. Only New York City, he argues for 300-plus pages, can sully the pristine...
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...
LET'S ASSUME you've settled upon a realistic type of job which you think you can stand. The next decision to make is where you want to work. Perhaps in the sunny splendor of the West Coast? Or in the bustling metropolis of New York city? The United States...
Emigrants from London, 83 percent of whom were male, were often drawn by the fortunes that could be made in the American iron industry and the rapidly growing construction business. Craftsmen of all kinds were in demand in the booming colonies, especially in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York. Bailyn identifies...