Word: whither
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should think that the governing board will continue to give emeritus status to a person who gives up his teaching status to let another person in," Riesman says. "I see sadly my agemates who have no projects--they whither. When teaching stops, when scholarship stops, when the faculty meetings stop, I think they find an emptiness...
...reading Suk Han's opinion piece of December 1, "Whither Harvard Athletics," we were once again saddened to see that within this college's educated and enlightened student body, stereotyping is alive and well. We do not fault Han for airing her opinions; it appears that Han's feelings are not unique to her, and we applaud her willingness to include them in this recurring discussion. We do believe, however, that her opinions and comments on the nature of athletics at Harvard are based on several misconceptions regarding the policies of Harvard's Departments of Athletics and Admissions...
...last time we saw Paris, we saw Sam Thomas, who is as native to Louisiana as a muskrat, dancing at Regine's, whither he had ventured from the George V, where he had a suite that he used as an office to organize a dinner at Versailles for 300 Cajuns, to make reservations at the Lido and the Crazy Horse, and to book the whole mob on planes and buses for a gambling sortie to Monte Carlo (he could have been doing all this at once; it is hard to say with Sam). When we caught up with him again...
Every 15 or 20 years someone with a note pad and pencil arrives in Sauk Centre, Minn., and asks cosmic questions: How's it goin'? What's the mood? Whither America? These visitations have been going on since 1920, when a native son named Sinclair Lewis published a best-selling satire called Main Street about a town he dubbed Gopher Prairie, which no one ever seriously doubted was inspired by Sauk Centre. Gopher Prairie was drawn as smug, suspicious and stuck in its ways, and that was a liberating vision for a newly urban America about to plunge into...
...WHITHER MODERN theater? Since the advent of film, most of the material that would have appeared on or off Broadway is much more ably shown on the screen. The greatest modern playwrights have realized this, tailoring their work for maximum theatrical impact. The less-than-greatest playwrights still have not mastered that trick, and the quite a bit less-than greatest don't even realize the obsolescence of their plays. It is into that latter category that Hugh Whitemore falls; if most new plays were like the Broadway-bound pack of Lies the question would not be "Whither modern theater...