Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read with interest Jennifer Mnookin's article on academic couples (April 9) and took particular pleasure in the happy ending of the Herlihys' academic and marital story. My husband and I have been commuting in one form or another since we began our careers some six years ago. We are both untenured, and my husband teaches history at Princeton. It was, therefore, with some irritation that I read Professor Zeckhauser's flippant and misleading comments both about the relative ease with which beginning assistant professors could find jobs in the same city and about the likelihood that a "commuter marriage...
...Board of Overseers were to become a body made up of members elected primarily to press a particular policy, it would be a very different Board than it has been heretofore," Joan Bok said in her letter...
...putting the resources of the University at the service of a particular list of candidates for the Board of Overseers, Ms. Bok, the board as a whole, the alumni office and, most importantly, President Bok have shown their fundamental lack of respect for one of the few ways the University community has to express their opinions," said Damon A. Silvers '86, a student prodivestment leader...
...mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of laid-off migrant workers --mainly Egyptians, Palestinians and Pakistanis--from the Persian Gulf could overtax their native lands and stir political unrest. While singling out no particular country, Secretary of State Shultz cautioned last week, "History teaches that nations in deep economic distress are more vulnerable to political instability, to the simplistic appeals of demagogues who preach siren songs of war and confrontation as a diversion from home...
...changing rhythms of a hoofer to orchestrate a characterization. Like all the best actors, he always made it look easy. Like Spencer Tracy, he seemed a natural force: everything seemed to flow out without calculation. Tracy, however, made chamber music; Cagney was a marching band. It is probably this particular blend of effortlessness and theatricality that moved Orson Welles to marvel, "You're supposed to be scaled down and subtle in movie acting. But look at Cagney--he's big. Everything he does is big, and it works...