Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Despite their penchant for satire, mostSoviets would deny that there's anything funny atall about communism. After all, the putatively"classless society" in practice means equality ofpoverty. It also means an obscene level of wealthfor the political elite, who enjoy summerdachas on the Crimea and special lanes onthe highways for their sleek Volga limosines whilethe rest of the population is holed away in huge,ghastly impersonal building complexes, one or tworooms to a family...
...naively expected that interviewing for medical school would be a cross between the PBS science series "Nova" and the Phil Donahue show. I had no idea I was to make a special appearance on the "Twilight Zone...
...makes a nifty conspiracy theory. Unfortunately, it's not true. The hard fought and infrequently won tenure battles (the war metaphor is Kimball's and the Times', not mine) by members of "special interest" groups have hardly changed the faces in the academic group photo...
...America today, according to Kimball, "every special interest--women's studies, Black studies, gay studies and the like--and every modish interpretive gambit--deconstruction, poststructuralism, new historicism, and other varieties of... `Left Eclecticism'--has found a welcome roost in the academy, while the traditional curriculum and modes of intellectual inquiry are excoriated as sexist, racist, or just plain reactionary...
BUREAUS: Barrett Seaman (Deputy Chief of Correspondents); Suzanne Davis (Deputy, Administration) Special Correspondent: Michael Kramer Correspondent at Large: Bonnie Angelo Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Diplomatic Correspondent: Christopher Ogden...