Word: teutonicisms
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Some observers abroad, however, seemed so intent on mocking French angst over the news that they failed to notice there actually was none this time around. "French Find German's Role Hard To Swallow" shouted U.K. daily The Independent - then curiously went on to quote exclusively German sources hailing Caspar...
There she stood, a vision of tawdriness: blond hair, black skirt, red bra over taut white flesh. She was that odd-lot remnant of the '80s, a Madonna wannabe. But most of the other fans at the Toronto SkyDome last week for the North American opening of the singer's...
Harvard does not sell the naming rights to academic departments. In a pinch, such a strategy might raise a few million dollars for the school—and would likely reach a logical end with the “J.P. Morgan Faculty of Arts and Sciences”?...
I’ve repressed my middle school days so thoroughly that almost nothing reminds me of them now, but in my few weeks in Berlin, the city has repeatedly evoked those troubled times. It's mostly been general impressions: of being reduced to a vocabulary that lacks words like...
We are all Parisians now. Ever since Charles W. Eliot’s teutonic reforms, which inaugurated the modern research university as we know it, student-faculty space has expanded dramatically. Few tutors were appointed after 1878 and none between 1904 and 1914; this while professors were being hired en...