Word: zeroed
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Stager came to Harvard from the University of Chicago in 1986, and in July, 1987 became Director of the Museum. Peretz observes, "Put starkly, he had zero interest in the work it did. A learned, but extraordinarily narrow specialist, he saw the space and the moneys of the museum uses as assets he could annex to his own archaeological enterprises...
Said John R. Connolly '96, "I know zero aboutit, I'm pro-waste, and I'm totally unaffected bythis audit...
...hand wringing, American resistance falls far short of the hostility evident in Western Europe. Gangs of racist thugs in Britain engage in "Paki bashing." France has officially declared a target of "zero immigration." Germany insists it is "not a country of immigration," and neo-Nazis have taken the dictum literally enough to set fire to hostels for foreign workers and asylum seekers...
Some time after his arrival here from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago eight years ago, Professor Stager was made the director of the museum. Put starkly, he had zero interest in the work it did. A learned but extraordinarily narrow specialist, he saw the space and the moneys the museum uses as assets he could annex to his own archaeological enterprises. In this sense his war against the museum is an easily understood university quarrel. It's what one Harvard wag calls "space imperialism...
...will come from the landscape." The story also comes, deviously or directly, from knocking about through one's own life, and Proulx did her share of that. She married and divorced three times and has three grown sons. But she says that the autobiographical content of her fiction is "zero" and urges young novelists to ignore the customary preachment to write about what they know. "Write about what's interesting," she says. "Write about what you'd like to know...