Word: professor
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...Richards, University Professor Emeritus and one of the founders of modern literary theory, died Friday in England. He was 86 years...
...philosopher of language," Jerome H. Buckley, Gurney Professor of English Literature, said yesterday. "He was at times a difficult and abstruse critic--he built bridges between philosophy and literary theory," he added...
Richards was a lecturer in English from 1939 to 1944, when he became a University Professor...
Harvard Assistant Professor Phin Cohen, an M.D. and biochemist, was studying human blood chemistry under a $200,000 research grant from the National Institutes of Health in 1972, when an aide to his department chairman asked him to sign a form. Innocuously titled "Report of Expenditures," it was designed to explain how Cohen's federal research money had been spent. Trouble was, the copy shown Cohen was blank. He asked for a list of expenditures. No, he was told, other researchers customarily signed blank forms. Administrators filled in the items later. Cohen persisted, and was warned by the School...
...display now seems to have been a form of primal yuk therapy at the onset of middle age. Roth was 40 at the time. His reputation as a master of literary comedy had been firmly established by Portnoy's Complaint. My Life as a Man (1974) and The Professor of Desire (1977) returned to the sensitive roots of his wit: the conflicts between lust and respectability, art and burlesque, cultural ties and personal freedom, the problem of how to be-or not to be-a Jew. Civilization and its discontents were no longer a set of Freudian trampolines...