Word: perishables
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...range of his virtuosity and literary cunning by echoing some Russian masters: Gogol of the satiric Dead Souls, Dostoyevsky of the subversive Notes from Underground, Turgenev of the pastoral Fathers and Sons, Nabokov of the evocative Speak, Memory. It is a special tradition, one in which publish or perish could have just as easily meant publish and perish...
Scientists should recognize that fraud does occur, and that the pressure to publish or perish is the primary cause. It would be in everyone's best interests for scientists to address the problem candidly, rather than ignore it or defensively deny that it exists. Scientists should waste no time in enacting new safeguards of their own, before Congress imposes the clumsy remedy of its choosing. After all, Congress has better things to do than to pick on Nobel laureates...
...awake sweating in the middle of the night, having dreamt that I was trapped in the movable stacks of Pusey Library while researching what Milton had for breakfast the day he started writing Paradise Lost. I thought publish or perish only applied to junior professors seeking tenure. I was wrong...
...government repression. It is deeply rooted in our national psyche that to be truly patriotic entails risking one's life. But the idea also dawned on many minds, in the dark years when people were deprived of their lives in humiliating circumstances, why not make a statement before you perish? Such is the attitude that hundreds of thousands of Chinese are now taking in the wake of Saturday's tragic massacre in Beijing...
...social consequences of overturning Roe would be lamentable. But the political consequences would ultimately be just as significant because abortion would become a political rather than a judicial issue. In an America without Roe, the Republicans, the party that pursued the anti-abortion cause, will either flourish or perish...