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"Myths" of an "immutable standard of excellence" are mere veneers for standards that implicitly favor the tenuring of men, one woman professor says, and others concur. Citing as "downright misogynists" the History. Anthropology, and English Departments--all of which, along with ten other departments, were "underutilizing" women, according to the...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Slow Motion On a Tenure Track | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

By contrast, the State Department roster bears a distinctly Nixon-Ford tinge--"moderate" in the Reagan framework--disappointing some conservatives. Pipes had been considered as special adviser to the secretary of state for Soviet affairs, but found the prospect of "giving advice until blue in the face" without line responsibility...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Mr. Pipes Goes to Washington | 1/16/1981 | See Source »

An unappealing fellow, one may grant; yet his tart tongue yields much of the evening's not inconsiderable humor, and he wins the audience's grudging affection and concern by having applied more cruelly exacting standards to himself than he has to those he has mocked. -By T.E.K

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Quartet | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

"Yecch," said the woman beside him. Hercules knew several women who found Arnold's physique unappealing, who said they couldn't imagine sleeping with him. For his own reasons, Hercules couldn't imagine sleeping with him either, a diferent story and one, Hercules would hear, not altogether foreign to bodybuilding...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Arnies of the Night | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

This is not to say that Douglas is an unappealing actor or that Susan Anspach, his long-suffering spouse, does not have some good moments playing a lady who knows better than to love him but cannot help herself. As a director, Steven Hilliard Stern does some nice, gritty road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dubious Victory | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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