Word: newe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ACADEMIA SPREADS its clutches far and wide. The academic industry gets bigger and bigger, and people lose their jobs if they don't publish. Every field becomes fair prey for new books. But the academic jargon doesn't fit everything--there's something especially out of place in the sort of analytic attention which Maurice Yacowar gives to Woody Allen in his new book, Loser Takes All: The Comic Art of Woody Allen. The cult of Woody Allen would be inexplicable if he didn't touch on some particular mood special to his times--the anxious defeated mood...
This Saturday, the State of New Jersey attempts to shed its last-place image by offering the insatiable sports fan a first: the first bowl game of the 1979 college football season...
...ancient days, when television covered--but didn't control--sports, bowl games were scheduled after Christmas Day and before New Year's Night, as a holiday treat for the football fanatic...
...JUST IN the movie theatres. He's reached the course directories, too, and now the bookshops display a new-spawned product of academia, Loser Takes All by Maurice Yacowar of Brock University, Ontario. For Yacowar, Allen is 'a serious, probing artist with a consistent and distinctive vision.' His films are indeed suspiciously clone-like, but 'serious, probing'? By what standards? Well, says Yacowar, Manhattan can be compared with 'Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion, another classic analysis of the decay of western culture.' Oh, and 'like Kafka, Allen makes Jews of us all.' We might wonder just what manner...
Competition: Although more than 100 New England teams participate in league and collegiate competition, they have not been organized into divisions based on skill. That means Harvard--which didn't even have a club team three years ago--will be up against some formidible competitors...