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...needles, thread, scissors and drainage tubes into surgical wounds. He takes pharmaceutical lessons from drug salesmen and writes illegible prescriptions that kill his patients. He soaks the sick, cheats on his income tax and, on his inviolable Wednesday afternoons at the country club, devotedly chases par while his patients perish unattended in hospitals, as often as not from falling...
...STENCH in the ear," wrote Ambrose Bierce, fulminating against noise in the long tradition of sensitive and thinking men. Marcel Proust was so fastidious about noise that he had his study lined with cork. Juvenal bemoaned the all-night cacophony of imperial Rome, observing that "most sick people perish for want of sleep." To Schopenhauer it was clear that "the amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity, and may therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure...
...wants to get her with child but cannot, she falls prey to a heated young gallant (Philippe Leroy) who merely wants to get her to bed and does. The lover presses his suit with life-or-death urgency, disguising himself as the luckless lout who is supposed to perish by black magic after Lucrezia has downed a potion brewed of mandragola, or mandrake root, and spent the night with him. Once conquered, Lucrezia cherishes the lad's do-or-die passion, ultimately scores her own sexual coup over the hypocrisy shown in the affair by her cuckolded husband...
...excellence" is not to become a bad joke. Tenure is a license for laziness and incompetence. Ph.D. degrees should have to be revalidated every ten years; excepted should be only those who publish significant results of their independent research, which, incidentally, should take care of the "publish or perish" nonsense. Also, the graduate student part-time instructor is much more valuable than you make him appear. He is an economic necessity; without him, many important elementary courses could never be taught at all. And he is often a truly excellent teacher...
...problem is not the overblown cry that professors are forced to "publish or perish." Most of the good teachers, in fact, cannot resist publishing; they have something they want to say to the world beyond their classrooms. Every teacher needs time to reflect and explore the frontiers of his field if he is to keep his teaching fresh. But whether all kinds of research always help teaching is problematical. Too often, says University of Utah English Chairman Kenneth Eble, scholarly magazines are established merely so that they can be "sent to editors of other magazines," and the scholar's great...