Word: shrift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...based entirely on pursuit of excellence, and it is probably presumptuous to raise questions about a procedure that experienced scholars and administrators have long chosen to use. But any policy as extreme as Harvard's ultra-cautious array of reviews is bound to look as if it gives short shrift in one direction or another. Two apparent shortcomings of the way Harvard grants tenure emerge--one pragmatic and one philosophical...
...CRITICS thought they had Derek Bok by the scruff of the neck. Picking at the few nuggets of potentially controversial material that speckle the president's monolithic annual report for 1980-81, faultfinders have proclaimed that in his discussion of the fate of student aid. Bok has given short shrift to those who don't make his academic grade--i.e., who aren't the stuff of the Ivy League. In his suggestion that students who do not achieve some "modest threshold" of college board scores be denied financial aid opportunities afforded those who transcend the cut-off mark...
...bipartisan support for the amending of the Clean Air and Water Acts. The great likelihood that this year's Congressional battles will be fought on the issues of the budget military spending and the economy--and the general dissatisfaction with the economy--mean environmental issues will get short shrift and could be fodder for political deals...
Another weakness is that the book gives short shrift to Soviet-American military balance and its political implications. Gandhi's strategy of passive resistance was effective against the British colonial rulers of India, but it is hardly applicable to the management of the Soviet challenge. Schell's position, like many others', seems to be that with the Soviet-American nuclear rivalry already at such grotesque levels of overkill, concepts of rough equivalence, equilibrium and stability lose all meaning. That proposition is highly debatable, yet Schell seems almost to take it for granted. While balance of power...
That women have been given short shrift by male academicians and men in general is an historical fact; however there is nothing inherently sexist in the structure or methodology of the academic disciplines. Women's studies programs may be springing up across the country, but they exist solely as a symbol. There is no distinctly "feminine" science, history or philosophy. Indeed, to imply that there is would be outrageously sexist...