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Pictures of the professoriate: this novel made fun of campus politics before campus politics became a bloodsport.(Pictures from an Institution)(Book review)
The academic novel is a strictly Anglo-American invention, probably because only in Britain and the United States do professors live in closed communities as asphyxiating as company towns. In Western Europe, Canada, and Latin America, universities are largely metropolitan affairs, and their faculty live alongside salesmen, doctors, plumbers, and other ordinary folk. They do not see their colleagues except during working hours. In contrast, many American colleges and universities are removed as far as possible from urban life; the result is a peculiar kind of hot-house atmosphere that provides abundant opportunities for unreality, intrigue, and conflict. True, the stakes in ...
- `Handmaid' digs way beyond satire Author's customary introspection fills tale...
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel JOHN DERBYSHIRE November 19, 1996 700+ words
...of course, politically incorrect. All this is sufficiently clever and funny, and the reader looking for a sendup of campus politics will be well-rewarded. However, there is more going on here than satire. Whatever Kurtz's plans for Olga are, she...
- GOP VALUES TAKE HOLD AT BC AS STUDENT SHIFT ALTERS CAMPUS POLITICS
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Diego Ribadeneira, Globe Staff November 6, 1988 700+ words
...from varying economic and political backgrounds. As a result, the Democratic Party no longer enjoys exclusive control of campus politics. "When I came in as a freshman we were definitely much smaller, less vocal and less active," said Frank McLaughlin...
- Campus politics: time to say 'no'.
- News wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh April 21, 2007 700+ words
April 20, 2007 (UNB): Ban politics from the campus - has been the slogan among the educated and the enlightened for a long time but it never happened. As education suffered, gun culture multiplied and ideals of academia were left in the cold to be mocked. However, if we want to save the campuses
- Campus Politics Serve Up Intellectual Heartburn
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times George Will April 18, 1996 700+ words
Tears and Chinese takeout food were recently on Tufts University's political menu. The episode illuminated the paradox of political passion on America's campuses, where there is an inverse relationship between the prevalence and the importance of political passions. Almost everything on campuses
- Campus politics.(EDITORIALS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times September 22, 2002 700+ words
Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES For decades, American college campuses have been hotbeds of liberalism and radicalism. And in more recent years, those same campuses essentially were single-handedly responsible for inventing and proliferating the odious doctrine of political correctness. Even by these
- CAMPUS POLITICS NOT JUST ACADEMIC.(MAIN)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 18, 1996 700+ words
Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer Harry Scherr III said he brings no particular educational agenda to the State University College at New Paltz's campus council, but he is concerned about keeping costs in check. ``To deliver effective education across time, you really need to have your finances in
- Parties for Bush gear up on campus.(Politics)
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) April 30, 2004 700+ words
Byline: Scott Maben The Register-Guard It had all of the ingredients of a college party: 15 students packed into a small apartment, chips and Oreos, Bud Lite, a call from Vice President Dick Cheney. OK, so it wasn't a typical party for a group of University of Oregon students. And it didn't get too
- A Plan for Governors Island: Make It a High-Tech Campus.(Politics&Opinions)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) October 9, 2000 700+ words
Byline: Richard Brookhiser Even as the nation decides its future, we must mind our own. We have a mayoral election to consider once this year's campaign ends. Whoever is Mayor, from whatever party, should consider the long-term economic health of New York. We have an opportunity to make good use of
Source: HighBeam Research, Pictures of the professoriate: this novel made fun of campus politics...