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...professionals know better. The Dallas-to-Chicago run loses its luster after the 100th trip. Romance is worn down by long days and lousy food. The course books don't talk about maneuvering Manhattan in a snowstorm. "They'll % soon find out," smiles a young instructor. "Drove ten years, truckin' got both my wives." Truck-company reps, roaming the halls to recruit talent, mince no words about the tough life. "Glory goes out the window when you're pounding 5,000 miles a week," says an old-timer. "Trucking used to be an honorable profession too. Now a lady...
That is not to say that Mallon's novel lacks pretension--it doesn't Mallon is an academic by profession and it shows. Few pages are without allusions. Art's love for Keats has earned him the nickname "Urn Man," and Mallon peppers his novel with frequent allusions to the...
Never formally trained in the profession, Josephson says he learned by working with Bergman and others. But because he never went to acting school, he believes that "my technique has never been thoroughly good."
The process of change, however, is alreadyunderway, spurred on by an increasingly large andactivist pool of women in academia. These women,who entered the profession in the aftermath of therevived women's movement of the late 1960s, havesparked an increased interest in feministscholarship.
None of which bears directly on the reasons why Rieke, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, is worrying. She's been planning for this night for most of a year. Her invitation was an intriguing one: "If you want to see some real white-knuckle astronomy, be...