Word: sessions
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...sharpened in the Senate, where they are available to any member. At high noon this Thursday, Jan. 19, Speaker Tip O'Neill in the House and Vice President Walter Mondale in the Senate will smartly rap their gavels on the polished desks before them. Thus will begin the second session of the 95th Congress, one of the boldest and balkiest in memory...
With Byrd's coaching. Carter and Congress seem headed toward mutual respect this session, though probably not affection. The man from Plains is not the kind of bourbon-sipping, backslapping politician who gets along easily with the good ole boys in Congress. But he intends to work harder at consulting and compromising with them, and in the face of the November elections, the Democrats seem more willing to make peace with their President. In his State of the Union message this week, Carter will outline his urgent goals for 1978: an energy bill, a tax cut, the passage of Panama...
Finally, WHRB presents a Schoenberg and Stravinsky Orgy from noon on January 15 to midnight on January 17. It includes recorded works conducted by the composers, taped interviews, and recordings no longer available or never commercially released. Anyone who can endure this listening session should be a match for any Mem Hall or Burr B session with Mr. Test...
...crowd at the center has vanished, to reconvene at a special session cheerfully entitled "Suggestions for Job Seekers" but full of depressing statistics. Of the 1,094 Ph.D.s created last year in English and 753 in languages, we learn only 42% and 46%, respectively, have landed steady teaching positions. "Ten years ago, anybody who didn't have a job by Jan. 15 would look in the mirror to see if he had leprosy," comments Jasper Neel, director of the M.L.A.'s English programs. "Now there won't be an upturn of Ph.D. hiring in this century...
Upstairs in the small meeting rooms, the M.L.A.'s traditional intellectual business goes on pretty much as usual, with over 700 sessions devoted to topics both arcane and trendy. In Parlor B of Palmer House, for instance, an attentive, largely gray-haired, gray-suited audience listens to William Youngren of Boston College expound on "Dr. Johnson, Joseph Wharton and a 'Theory of Particularity.' " In another, a panel of women professors bears down on "Sexism and Racism in Shakespeare" to an overwhelmingly female audience. But concern for the tremendous Ph.D. glut has invaded even these rarefied environs...