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...student added, "A lot of people think we're not working hard enough now. They really want more people to follow their footsteps into basic science academia...
...past, many graduate students stayed on for several years, preferring the benefits of steady if poorly paid work to the uncertain future of job-hunting in the stultifying academia out of which they had only recently and partially emerged. And the University, for its part, enjoyed the fruits of these inner hesitations and deliberations, namely the heart of its stable, diligent and economical teaching staff...
Also the proponents of the JFK memorial speak of carrying out his dream to bring politics and academia closer together. What could further this end more than locating the school of politics in Park Square, adjacent to both the State House and Boston City Hall? Joseph Schirmer Ward...
...might, and he did try, he could not transcend for long the monochromatic lugubriousness of his emotional palette. Yet his sound is so distinctive, his melodies are so appealing, his orchestrations so skillful, that Rachmaninoff's music simply will not go away, despite the condescension of academia and the critics. He may not have written music "of his own time" (assuming serialism and atonality to be the proper fashion), but then neither does Benjamin Britten nor Dmitri Shostakovich. Nor, in other eras, did Edward Elgar or Bach worry about being in vogue...
...lifelong Chicagoan, Greeley, at 45, feels like an outcast from the city's academia and his diocese. Perhaps too melodramatically, given his loyal circle of friends, he sees himself as a "lonely" and "marginal" priest. But he hardly seems forlorn. In warm months, he shuttles in his Volkswagen between his gloomy Victorian room in the city and a rambling old beach house in Grand Beach, Mich., where he keeps a small sailboat, scuba gear and water skis. Beyond that, there is the puckish Greeley to cheer the melancholy Greeley up: "The only time I really feel lonely is when...