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McClelland's discussion, part of an ongoing council review of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, was designed to shed some light on the problems the GSAS faces in trying to choose applicants who will later be outstanding scholars
...perhaps Tom McGuane also suffers from memory loss--he has forgotten the Aristotelian Florida of 92 in the Shade, forsaken it for the Caribbean syndicalism of Panama. As Geoffrey Wolfe (one of our better book critics) pointed out in his review in New Times, this book suffers from many things, but most of all it suffers from the first person. But that first person telling also makes me think there is more to Panama than one might first notice: 92 in the Shade was a story of heat, moving at a seemingly languid pace, while Panama, underneath the cool cocaine...
...Nestles states that "the preponderance of available evidence points to a mother's need, or desire, to work as the principal reason for the breast feeding decline." My review of studies from Third World countries and my own work suggests this is not the case. An analysis of recently published studies from five countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean suggests that no more than 6 per cent of mothers in any country said they gave up breast feeding in order to work...
...consistently ranked by students as one of the school's best teachers. Adds he: "I did the Columbia University thing for five years. At those big places, everybody gets up early to read the New York Times in case somebody zings you at lunch by mentioning a book review. You have to be facile. But at the end of the week, there isn't much original work. Here our greatest contribution is what we are really doing in science...
...links with 'Bloomsbury' had grown stronger. He had got on to friendly, if not intimate terms, with Virginia Woolf, and when her novel, The Voyage Out, was published in the spring of 1915, he reviewed it in the Daily News, hailing it as a masterpiece ... He wrote in his review: 'Human relations are no substitute for adventure because when real they are uncomfortable, and when comfortable they must be unreal. It is for a voyage into solitude that man was created.' Virginia Woolf, desperate for reassurance about her work, as she always continued...