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Also making a major appearance, as he did in a famous feud with Vladimir Nabokov, is Wilson the noble crank. Here he makes a dyspeptic but delightful attack on the cumbersome, pedantic paraphernalia assembled by the Modern Language Association (the college literature teachers' "union") to edit and publish classic American authors. The blame, says Wilson, goes back to "our oppressive Ph.D. system of which we would have been well rid if, at the time of the First World War, when we were renaming our hamburgers Salisbury Steak and our sauerkraut Liberty Cabbage, we had decided to scrap...
...housing construction. With 46,000 copies left to print, Times editors learned that Poulson had been arrested and charged with conspiracy after a police investigation. According to British law, the instant a civil or criminal matter is formally brought before a court, newsmen risk jail for contempt if they publish more about the case than is revealed in open court. The Times felt that it had to yank the editorial from the remaining press run. In its place appeared much white space and a note explaining that the article had been rendered "potentially prejudicial...
Last January the University Police began for the first time to publish weekly tabulations of thefts, assaults and other reported crimes throughout the University. They now send the report to over a hundred departments, officials and organizations in an effort to inform them of crime in the community. Eventually, the police hope to chart crime rates for successive years and comparable weeks during the years...
Stimulated by the affirmative action program, many academics have recently done studies which discount several of the myths about women. One of these studies showed that married women PhDs publish more than male PhDs. Another, done by the National Academy of the women doctorates have somewhat greater academic ability than their male counterparts...
Last January the University Police began for the first time to publish weekly tabulations of thefts, assaults and other reported crimes throughout the University. They now send the report to over a hundred departments, officials and organizations in an effort to inform them of crime in the community. Eventually, the police hope to chart crime rates for successive years and comparable weeks during the years...