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...think there is a tried-and-true formula in the family to success, which is to go into the paper,” Anders says. “It was not a formula he wanted to accept...
According to Buell, Simpson got word during the recruitment process that he had received a prestigious two-year British Academy Fellowship—which he would have to give up in order to accept Harvard’s offer. Buell said that the department did not wish to deprive Simpson of the benefits of that fellowship, and so offered him a leave package for next year...
...senior faculty position has also been offered to Professor Louis Menand of the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, who has not yet decided if he will accept the offer. Menand, who won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books...
...hand, having grown up during the so-called “good war,” members of the Class of 1953 were more willing to accept without question the rectitude of the U.S. foreign policy. But on the other hand, the members of the Class of 1953 had heard stories about battle first-hand from buddies who had fought in World War II—and knew too much to trust newsreels from the Korean War that depicted goreless fighting...
Oliver, who is a Protestant, says Law at first tried to convince him to accept the beliefs of the Catholic Church...