Word: youngren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Upstairs in the small meeting rooms, the M.L.A.'s traditional intellectual business goes on pretty much as usual, with over 700 sessions devoted to topics both arcane and trendy. In Parlor B of Palmer House, for instance, an attentive, largely gray-haired, gray-suited audience listens to William Youngren of Boston College expound on "Dr. Johnson, Joseph Wharton and a 'Theory of Particularity.' " In another, a panel of women professors bears down on "Sexism and Racism in Shakespeare" to an overwhelmingly female audience. But concern for the tremendous Ph.D. glut has invaded even these rarefied environs...
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