Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...turning point," warned Ezra Vogel, chairman of Harvard's Council of East Asian Studies and author of Japan as Number One: Lessons for America. "If we are to avoid going the way of Britain, we have to act fast." Added Harvard Economics Professor Otto Eckstein: "The 1980s are a decisive decade. The forces of decline can be stemmed, but if we fail to come to grips with our problems, the U.S. will wind up taking a back seat to more disciplined countries such as West Germany, Japan and possibly even some totalitarian countries developing along socialist lines...
That difference, the author steadily and hearteningly reminds her readers, is in the end worth all the prior trauma and trouble. To have a baby, she urges, read what you will and then do what seems best. What seems best is to start by reading Cole and heeding her sound counsel. To live with the baby, she says, "savor every morsel of motherhood as it comes along...
Somehow I had hoped that the reams of feminist criticism of American literary sexism (see Andrea Dworkin's Woman Hating; see my article on Kerouac in the September 1978 Seventh Sister) would knock writers like Mailer off their pedestals, would make younger writers realize that they could criticize an author's male chauvinism while admiring his use of language. Perhaps this is too much to ask of Harvard, where, as we all know, the pugilist has a private little ring at 21 South Street...
...developing alternatives in such areas as education, health, spirituality, scientific understandings, working and living arrangements, Ferguson's book presents mounds of fascinating and thought-provoking possibilities. But it is also confusing. How do all these disparate currents fit together, through the vision of the practicioners or merely through the author's omniscient position? Most of the 'conspirators' she discusses are teachers, writers, researchers, doctors--comfortable, white Americans. How do the poor feel about the Age of Aquarius? Will the Third World rejoice in America's rediscovery of the sacredness of life and the possibilities of human community unless this...
...Pianist-author Charles Rosen will be the 1980-81 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. Rosen, who won the 1972 National Book Award for his "The Classical Form: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven," will give six Norton lectures and two recitals of Beethoven piano pieces next year...