Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...EDITORS write that they "were not looking for a contrived list of books that made a particular professor look good, but for sincere descriptions of books that truly mattered." They may not have been looking for any contrived lists, but they certainly found some...
...GUIDE IS most useful and enjoyable when the respondents describe books that meant much to them in a personal, non-professional, sense. Alan Brinkley, for instance, submitted a list of books which "have given me particular pleasure." Knowing why he likes Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom! or why particular books on Law Professor Martha Minow's shelf "are so worn from re-reading--or missing from the shelf altogether because I keep insisting that someone else read them" is interesting stuff. This book would be a lot better if there were more of it. But there...
...takes his job--and its prestige--seriously. He has tried to live up to his reputation in recent years by issuing reports sharply critical of American higher education in general, and its professional schools in particular. Now he has produced Higher Learning, a 206-page survey and critique of the state of American higher education, circa...
...never sure he had enough of either of those commodities. Recruited by Paley from a job as No. 2 at Pillsbury, the diversified food firm, Wyman from the beginning was tarred by CBS insiders as not mindful of the needs of broadcast television, and of CBS News in particular. As 60 Minutes' Morley Safer put it last week, "He seemed to be not only cold and aloof as far as the news division is concerned, but extremely so as far as the company is concerned...
...Broadcast Group, but who also took back the news division title after the incumbent president, Edward Joyce, was shunted aside last December. CBS journalists were scathing about the role they felt that Sauter, a former journalist, had played in adding dollops of entertainment value to the news side. In particular, he drew scorn for hiring Phyllis George, a onetime Miss America, as an anchor for the ailing Morning News; George was later yanked. Said a news division source: "Sauter lost his reputation as being a dedicated news guy. He lost allies." Sauter defended his actions by declaring that "no matter...