Word: datedness
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Something happened last week however. On Monday afternoon Samuel Newhouse, the head of a family-owned media empire that bought the magazine in 1985, visited Shawn in his sparely decorated office. Newhouse got right to the point: Robert Gottlieb, 55, president and editor in chief of the publishing house of...
This is not to say that it is entirely lacking in the "lyrical realism" that the Huntington insists on in their advertisements. Ralph, trying to describe the wonders of the girl he has fallen in love with: "She's so beautiful, she's like...French words!" And the complete subjugation...
One letter, dated December 27, 1984, and signed by Fraser, said, "I look forward to getting with you on January 3 or 4 regarding the Nicaraguan Refugee Fund and the proposed plan."
However, within a decade, graduates' knowledge would be dated; what had served them so well as undergraduates would be superceded by more recent research. And over a life-time, a nitty-gritty education would ultimately prove less useful than a few years of trade school.
"I hope I can find a way to go back and forth," Wu Hung says. "It's important that there be dialogues between Chinese and Western scholars and it's important that people exchange this kind of scholarship on a regular basis. Otherwise knowledge becomes dated."