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...with the depth and seriousness of Interiors. If so, the Interiors strand nearly strangles Manhattan. Why are so many critics deaf to the poverty of the language in Interiors and parts of Manhattan? The direct study of personality in a society of encounter sessions and "meaningful relationships" threatens to scour all metaphors and imagery from both critics and artists...
Part of the explanation for Harvard's low promotion rate lies in the University's tenure philosophy. Harvard views itself as the greatest research university, and therefore grants tenured positions only to professors considered the outstanding scholars in their field. "It's a star system--the point is to scour the world for the best," one assistant professor says. David H. Donald, Warren Professor of American History, agrees and sketches a vision of Harvard as the undisputed leader of scholarship. "This is, or ought to be, the great university in the country--if we had the best people...
...Philippe Junot, 38, in the chapel of the Grimaldi family palace, reporters from all over the world were feverishly plotting their assault on a ceremony that the parents of the bride had vowed to keep private. The National Enquirer, the Florida-based tabloid, dispatched ten reporters and photographers to scour the Riviera in quest of informants on the courtship. There was talk that helicopters would be hired to hover above the walled-in palace garden. A Paris paper engaged a motorboat to give chase should the newlyweds depart by sea for their honeymoon...
...thing to do in the next few years is to go after the courses designed for non-concentrators," Beer added. "Beat the bushes, scour the countryside, cast pearls before swine--get those courses...
...genius, and his downfall, was recruiting. Harkness could scour the plains of Alberta and Saskatchewan signing up farm boys better than anyone. When asked why he switched from R.P.I. to Cornell, he used to say: "Because it's 90 miles closer to the Canadian border...