Word: subjected
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...that his candidacy would be referred to the same ad hoc committee reviewing two nominees sponsored by other departments with disparate specializations. Finally, Isaac alleges that "at least one member of the committee was known to have a conflict of interest with, and antagonism to, the development of African subject" within the department...
Instead of being "comprehensive," as Fox intended his plan to be, the plan shows a myopic concern for the efficient use of Harvard's existing housing facilities and for fiscal conservatism. Rosovsky has made a unilateral decision about everyday College life, a subject on which students have a right to help decide, with only the accoutrements of democratic consultation. He has yet to respond genuinely to demands to equalize the Quad with the rest of Harvard...
...system embracing professionals (independent doctors, lawyers, dentists, engineers) is something else again. Their earnings, though broadly determined by the general marketplace, are also subject to the influences of an intimate psychological marketplace, one in which intangibles of repute and character are bought and sold along with knowledge and service. Some professionals also manipulate their market by limiting their own numbers - in the way that physicians do through their control of professional education and licensing...
...Biographer Andrew Field, Nabokov: His Life in Part must seem like the roughest final exam of his academic life. Field, 39, is a New Jersey-born scholar who now teaches literature at Griffith University in Australia. He has had a working and personal relationship with his subject since the publication of Nabokov: His Life in Art (1967), Field's excellent study of the Russian American's novels and stories...
Field carefully turns the native and foreign soils that have nurtured his subject: the Cambridge University days when Nabokov devoted most of his time to sports and writing Russian poetry; the vigor of exile literature in prewar Europe; dispersal of emigre energies and talents after the war began. Nabokov's love affair with America, his teaching experiences at Wellesley and Cornell, and his success with Lolita are covered in more detail than most readers may care to absorb. But Nabokov's friendship and celebrated squabble with Edmund Wilson are sensitively yet amusingly rendered...