On Dec 7, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Michael J. Smith wrote:
> On Wed, December 7, 2011 10:53 am, Doug Henwood wrote:
>> But in most senses, the
>> factory is an authoritarian regime. They don't even pretend to embrace
>> free expression.
>
> Of course they don't. But they have to put up with
> a lot of it. Or did, back in the day, when people had
> unions. I'm sure it's much worse now. But it's worse
> in Academe too -- just part of the general race to
> the bottom.
When I got to the UVa English department in 1976, the departing star was one Fredson Bowers, bibliographer, and author of the claim that the apple in Eden was not your Delicious apple, not your Macintosh, but a real English pippin. Sometimes, you think that some things have gotten better.
Doug