I'll put up Twentieth Century (Hawks, Lombard, Barrymore) against all comers

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they've been crushing the profession for a generation. and the Mellon thing in retrospect looks like some kind of bait-and-switch, one I still don't really understand the point of

but at the start of the nineties the whole thing crashed. I had *three* MLA interviews in 1991--after a few years years where 12-15 seemed like a normal haul--and I was doing well to get them.

and then departments, as if at a signal, started raising promotion requirements for junior faculty

remember the Mellon fellowships? I got one in '85. we were supposed to be entering a golden age of hiring in the humanities, what with the anticipated wave of boomer retirements, an d they were intent on restocking the farm system

I can't imagine the kind of poverty of soul you'd have to have to call "number proves I'm smart" a transformational moment in your life

thumb holes are the kind of shirt technology you'd expect to hear people going on about on I Think You Should Leave

"populist institutionalist" in bio, iow my politics focuses on toppling the structures of power that I wholeheartedly endorse being maintained

I believe it's spelled møøse

my lasting image of atom-bomb horror was Burgess Meredith weeping on the library steps. I'm not sure I even registered the ironic comeuppance part, I just saw myself

I was a bookish little kid newly prescribed with glasses when I first saw this one, and it haunted me for years afterward

then again, using formulaic ethics to ward off blame for evils you're actively propagating is pretty much just what moral discourse is for neoliberals