Particularity
continued
For Louise Fletcher
"A couple of years ago, in an article explaining how funds for faculty
positions are allocated in American universities, the provost of the
University of California at Berkeley offered some frank advice to
department chairs, whose job partly consists of lobbying for a share of
the budget. 'On every campus,' she wrote, 'there is one department
whose name need only be mentioned to make people laugh; you don't want
that department to be yours.'
The provost, Carol Christ (who retains her faculty position as a
literature professor), does not name the offender—but everyone knows
that if you want to locate the laughingstock on your local campus these
days, your best bet is to stop by the English department."
continued
For Louise Fletcher
on her birthday
Fletcher in
Exorcist II: The Heretic
From Andrew Delbanco, the author of
The Death of Satan:
How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil:
"A couple of years ago, in an article explaining how funds for faculty
positions are allocated in American universities, the provost of the
University of California at Berkeley offered some frank advice to
department chairs, whose job partly consists of lobbying for a share of
the budget. 'On every campus,' she wrote, 'there is one department
whose name need only be mentioned to make people laugh; you don't want
that department to be yours.'
The provost, Carol Christ (who retains her faculty position as a
literature professor), does not name the offender—but everyone knows
that if you want to locate the laughingstock on your local campus these
days, your best bet is to stop by the English department."
-- Andrew Delbanco in
The New York Review of Books, Nov. 4, 1999
Christ:
Click on picture for details.
For Christ in a different context,
see the 9/11 entry of Log24
in a September 2003 archive.
For exorcism in a different context, see
Exorcism and Multiple Personality Disorder
from a Catholic Perspective,
by Fr. J. Mahoney.
"Got to keep the loonies on the path."
-- Roger Waters
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