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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder, then, that three years later Harvard remains the only Ivy League institution not to have given any organized support to the growing, interdisciplinary field. It is also no wonder that the Women's Studies committee one year ago could not lure renowned literary critic Elaine Showalter away from an offer at Princeton, which--unlike Harvard--has already demonstrated its commitment to the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Time To Get Serious | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...becomes a good, if old, dad. Baxter stays home to write in a woodsy cabin with his second wife Diane, nearly 20 years his junior, and he and Jenny share her strained veal ("unspeakable"), his exhibitionism (she upstages him in a local TV commercial) and a common wonder at nature. But the idyllic days are sometimes wistful because, Baxter writes, "I will probably never see her as a woman of 30." By his good-natured endurance of late fatherhood, Baxter has earned a damp eye or two in this jolly tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bookends Jenny 'N' Dad by Gordon Baxter Summit | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...only wonder what they might have done if Coke changed its forumla again...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Happy Days Are Here Again | 8/9/1985 | See Source »

...even scarier to wonder what standards editors of papers that aren't among the nation's top 10 hold their reporters...

Author: By Jetfrey A. Zucker, | Title: The Globe's Here . . . Substantially | 8/9/1985 | See Source »

...JANEWAY TRULY BELIEVES his words, then it is more than a scary thought to wonder how many stories The Globe passes off as nothing more than "substantially true...

Author: By Jetfrey A. Zucker, | Title: The Globe's Here . . . Substantially | 8/9/1985 | See Source »

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