[lbo-talk] Re: Philosophical Gourmet

[Carrol Cox]

I don't quite know how it works, but I doubt that there's a department
in the land that doesn't have one or two real dim bulbs. In an aside in
a discussion in Critical Inquiry some years ago the writer (I believe a
Harvard professor) said that in the 1930s the head of the English
Department at Harvard was little known, even among members of his
department.

When I was at Michigan they had at least three full professors in the
English Department who could only be described as intellectually
embarassing. I'm sure there must be two or three of similar calibre
tucked away here and there at Berkeley, or any other university.

With an overproduction of Ph.D.s, in theory appointment  committees have
a wider choice, and to some extent it works that way. I suspect it also
results in getting too involved in complex choices and coming up with
losers.

Carrol

Chuck Grimes wrote:
> 
> Bennett would never even get tenure in a phil department like Berkeley.
> 
> -- Luke
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> 
> Upgrade your sardonic humor program, Luke. It was a joke--about as funny
> as Bennett anointed Secretary of Education.
> 
> Chuck Grimes
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