Word: philologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...title role is taken by Patrick Fitzpatrick, no ordinary ranch hand. Sure, he breaks broncs and gets violently drunk. But he also reads Thucydides, has a philologist's loathing for the bad grammar of his colleagues, and shops for mushrooms like Paul Bocuse. He values the purity and simplicity of Western life but rarely enjoys it. Patrick is too busy feeling superior to cowboys, real and rhinestone. Haunted by what he calls "sadness-for-no-reason," this Hamlet in mule-ear boots admires only one thing: horses. Clopping into the sunset on a favorite mare, he exults privately...
...still fume as I recall a discussion when I was on the Hopkins faculty. An outstanding philologist was under consideration for tenure. One member of the Committee objected to her appointment on the ground that she would not be as available as other faculty members for collegial discussions because she would not be able to join the Faculty Club--from which women were excluded! Despite that troglodyte, she was appointed (and the Faculty Club was later moved to change its rules) but the very discussion brought to light the absurdity and the extent of sexism in academe...