Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decided that I have the right to be happy, that in my great desire to wish happiness to the rest of the world, I have to do it in a way that allows me some kind of self-fulfillment," she says. "But you always get into a trap, because self-fulfillment and social conscience don't necessarily work together. Sometimes things can be extremely comfortable for you, and it means you're not really doing anything for anybody else...
Many junior faculty at Harvard and elsewhere succumb to the same pressures as Klein's students, in search not of grades but of the elusive academic grail, tenure. Klein insists it's not a trap she will let herself fall into; ask her about her chances for tenure, and she will reply: "Zero. I don't think I could take any other kind of perspective on it. My way of coping with this place is to really work on developing the very best record that I possibly can so that when my tenure decision comes up I will be able...
...going through Peking middle men--is partially an attempt to circumvent the massive Chinese bureaucracy. Hopelessly out of touch with the rest of the nation, and filled with left-leaning officials from the Cultural Revolution who are none too sympathetic to Dengist ideas, the bureaucracy may prove a terrible trap. Even if the Chinese do succeed in stimulating local production, upgrading provincial technology and putting locales into competition with one another, they must still break through the government's rigid top-to-bottom structure. Anhui province may succeed in upgrading electrical equipment factories but nothing guarantees that those new techniques...
Many junior faculty at Harvard and elsewhere succumb to the same pressures as Klein's students, in search not of grades but of the elusive academic grail, tenure. Klein insists it's not a trap she will let herself fall into; ask her about her chances for tenure, and she will reply: "Zero. I don't think I could take any other kind of perspective on it. My way of coping with this place is to really work on developing the very best record that I possibly can so that when my tenure decision comes up I will be able...
...going through Peking middle men--is partially an attempt to circumvent the massive Chinese bureaucracy. Hopelessly out of touch with the rest of the nation, and filled with left-leaning officials from the Cultural Revolution who are none too sympathetic to Dengist ideas, the bureaucracy may prove a terrible trap. Even if the Chinese do succeed in stimulating local production, upgrading provincial technology and putting locales into competition with one another, they must still break through the government's rigid top-to-bottom structure. Anhui province may succeed in upgrading electrical equipment factories but nothing guarantees that those new techniques...