Word: somethingness
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Even worse than the recent "authors" selected were the quotations themselves. Certainly, John Lennon and Paul McCartney deserve to be in Bartlett's, but a little more thought should have been given to the utility of the quotes listed. When is anyone going to say, "As Lennon and McCartney once...
Young scholars on the tenure track have found feminist theory a risky field of concentration. Despite her prominence, Catharine MacKinnon has been an academic nomad, journeying through seven law schools in the past decade. Last month she accepted her first offer of a tenured professorship, at the University of Michigan...
In principle, the Nunn/McCurdy proposal has met with much support on Capitol Hill and across the country. Not since John F. Kennedy's 40 Inaugural Address and the institution of the Peace Corps have leaders actually asked young people to give something back to their country in return for the...
A final criticism is that under the Nunn/McCurdy plan, rich students are excluded, thereby polarizing society's class structure. Mr. Baer asks "how can we as a democratic nation take seriously a policy that explicitly exempts the rich from requirements made of the citizenry?" This is a valid concern, something...
But I wonder--if this were 1959 and Harvard had just defeated St. Lawrence--would this paragraph make any sense? No way. But something about rhubarb would have. Something like this: