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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gilbert and Gubar, both university teachers, make no bones about writing from a feminist perspective; they claim that men have denied women not only the right to think, but to express themselves, a claim Gilbert and Gubar back up with some terrifying examples, one of them this remark by Gerald Manley Hopkins in 1886: "[the writer's] most essential quality is masterly execution which is a kind of male gift and especially marks off men from women, the begetting of one's thoughts on paper." Unfortunately, Hopkins was not the exception of his day; this kind of thinking left literary...
...want to express my unqualified support for the President's recently announced suggestion that the University move forward into the genetic engineering business. Now, at last, we have a chance to complete the rout, begun in my own student days at Harvard, of comparative literature, fine arts, religion and all the other disciplines that cannot pay their own way with the overhead on federal grants and with profitable patents. Now, at last, we can be assured of continuing support for the many University administrators--in the style to which they have grown accustomed. Now, at last, this profitable enterprise will...
...rate airlines spawned by deregulation of the industry. Next month, New York Air, a new subsidiary of Texas International, will start providing 18 flights a day along the New York City to Washington, D.C., corridor in direct competition with the busy Eastern Air Lines shuttle. And People Express next year will begin service to six cities out of Newark...
...tangled for rational explanation. In these arias an actor named Walter Schmidinger does protean work. The rest of the cast is excellent too, but because Tim is the only one who fully grasps Bergman's philosophical idea, he is the only one who can express a full range of free, unpuzzled emotions. His wisdom, compassion and anguish briefly quicken and warm a bleak film that is more interesting to analyze than to attend; for the fact is that Bergman has set himself a most formidable artistic task in this film. Marionettes, obviously, are less than human-the dead playthings...
...however, think of yesterday's game as deja vu. The Q-manoids took care of that by finally squelching the Auteri-to-Cheney touchdown express to grab a 12-6 victory and its own first House championship...