Word: publishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mosaic now publishes in a vacuum, and this issue in particular seems little more than a chance collection of stories, poems tracts, reviews, and articles. No single viewpoint or intent infuses all the contributions. True, the magazine is a "Jewish Student Journal" and most of the writers are Jewish, but this is not enough. Commentary is also "Jewish, but much more significantly, it is aimed at a sector of the liberal intelligentsia that considers itself highly aware and concerned, both politically and culturally. Mosaic certainly doesn't need an ideology. Nor should it pick a "theme" for each issue...
...implication of the "publish or perish" syndrome is that university administrators, unable to measure teaching ability, tend to abdicate this responsibility and rate teachers solely on their research. Contending that one of their favorite teachers is the victim of this practice, 200 Yale students last week picketed for three days and chilly nights outside administrative offices in Woodbridge Hall...
Some paperback concerns are now shrewdly buying writers instead of titles. No author really likes to split his reprint royalties with his publisher-a standard clause in most contracts-and the paperbacks have found him a loophole by entering the hard-cover field themselves. For the sake of the writer's pride, they first publish the edition that goes on the library shelf and commands the reviewer's eye, followed by the cheap edition for the nation's pockets-both under the same contract...
...problem. First, members of the Faculty might be made to devote their time exclusively to teaching. This suggestion arouses either panic or incredulous laughter whenever it is mentioned, and is in any case entirely impractical. If Harvard is to maintain its reputation the Faculty must continue to publish and win prizes. To this end they must be left to their laboratories, libraries, and presidential commissions...
Bernstein who has been on the Yale faculty for nine years has published one book and reportedly is about to publish a second...