Word: academia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professor thoroughly confused; as the annoyingly well-informed narrator tells us several timer, he is so wrapped up in his books that he can't tell the real thing when it pokes him in the face. It is a cheap and half-hearted shot at academia, but it is the closest thing here to a point...
...drastic cutback in men or a dramatic increase in the size of the College to accommodate more women, most of the big givers don't care very much what happens at Harvard. They have no clear indication from Harvard of what is going on academically, and University academia is a topic rarely broached when they do congregate (most of the alum's don't recognize the name Henry Rosovsky as dean of the Faculty). Even the interviewers, many of them recent graduates, can only answer questions about the broad tutorial and House systems, and nothing more specific...
...more involved now in public affairs than academia. so it's a good appointment for him," Moore said of Peretz...
...keeping with his reputation as a statesman and intellectual of international repute, Harry Lee (as he was known in his undergraduate days at Cambridge University) conscientiously seeks to associate himself with prominent sectors of Western intelligentsia and academia. Every now and then, eminent Western academics, ranging from Herman Kahn to Gunnar Myrdal, visit Singapore especially to meet him. When he can, and more recently, when he dares (perhaps because of unpleasant and embarrasing demonstrations) he ventures abroad to Cambridge, Harvard or Yale...
...graceful and familiar ease the various chairs, desks, book cases, and lamp cords that clutter the stage. Director John Greenwood has taken his actors and put them in a confining (and potentially dangerous) set, that serves only to accentuate the petty and bitter world of Ben Butley's academia. The direction is totally unobtrusive--which is exactly as it should be in a small and personal play of this sort. Credit must also be given to the supporting cast of Nicole Francois, Christina Keefe, Lorna Koski, Ray Pierre-Humbert, and Bob Morgan...