Word: professor
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Other words are even more inappropriate. "Chick," "babe," "dudette" and "hotcakes" cannot be used seriously. I still can't imagine myself saying, "Professor, I would like to follow up on what the dudette just said...
Archibaid Cox, Loeb University Professor Emeritus...
JUST last week it was revealed that the Radcliffe Board of Trustees has decided to offer Yale professor of psychology and medicine Judith Rodin the presidency of Radcliffe. In the wake of that decision, questions must be raised about both the role of the next president and the future of the institution. Whether or not Rodin accepts the position, the next president faces the challenge of determining if Radcliffe still has a role in undergraduates' lives...
...coincidence, one of their most vexing disputes was settled just days earlier, in District of Columbia Superior Court. Judge Frederick Weisberg ruled that the Catholic University of America had every right to follow John Paul's dictates by removing from its theology faculty Father Charles Curran, an outspoken professor who questions church policies on birth control, abortion, homosexuality, premarital sex and divorce...
Duberman, a professor of history at Lehman College in New York City, is a scrupulous biographer. But he seems an ingenuous historian. In his view, Robeson became the target of "Cold War hysteria," and the sad outcome of a brilliant career was, in essence, "America's tragedy." But in fact, the wound was self-inflicted. The champion of minorities and laborers turned out to be oddly forgiving about crimes against humanity -- provided that they were committed in the Workers' Paradise. To him, Stalin's infamous purges were a $ proper way to deal with "counter-revolutionary assassins." The pact between...