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Harvard professors do more than their share of consulting in comparison to professors at other universities. One reason is Harvard's high level of prestige: whether a professor is truly qualified to advise on a certain topic, the Harvard seal of tenure is usually enough to earn him outside respect. "If I'm testifying in court, 50 per cent of the reason they listen to me is because I'm a Harvard professor," Zeckhauser says...
...start an affirmative action program, and sent a letter to students and faculty. "There was a great uproar," Horowitz says minority student groups indicated they opposed the idea, and the faculty kept silent. "It was a pretty negative reception, so we decided to give it up," Horowitz says. "The topic will probably come up again, but our experience certainly wasn't encouraging," she adds. The review currently has no minority members...
...vote on the people who are left," he says. "The process is as blind as possible, but in the second half of the comp when people are working around the office it's hard to be completely anonymous." Glass says that race and gender are considered a "valid topic for discussion" at these election meetings, but that the review has no formal affirmative action plan. Of 65 current editors, 16 are women, three are Black, three Chicano and one Asian...
...much we could get the poor devil to spend on us," she adds. Despite the stiff competition a young man might find at a Thursday afternoon tea or an early evening jolly-up, it was still he who had to initiate any private dates. Sex was naturally a topic of great fascination, but few were brazen enough to discuss it in public, let alone defy their guardians to spend the night in a Harvard room. "We were all just goggle-eyed at the thought of doing 'it'," recalls Morss...
Like the end of Portnoy's Complaint, the conclusion of Zuckerman Unbound suggests a new beginning. Nathan even shows his impatience when he says, "Being a poor misunderstood millionaire is not really a topic that intelligent people can discuss for very long." As a sturdy vehicle for Roth's comic genius, Zuckerman may show up again: Will he travel to Prague and discover Franz Kafka as an aged steam-bath attendant? Will he beget children who grow up to be literary critics? Will he win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and have to return it when everything...