Simon J. Frankel

Academia's Angst

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T OM WOLFE once said that the experience of being a graduate student was so excruciatingly painful that he and

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B LARING HEADLINES last week trumpeted the news that a new financial plan had been worked out to save the

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T HERE IS A SENSE OF DESPAIR in recent writing on the nuclear armaments dilemma. The works continue to arouse

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B ooks which tell us that the work of the intellectual pioneers that we have come to idolize was actually

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E THYLENE dibromide (EDB) is not a household word, but Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker and Wonder Bread are. So when

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W ith so many cherished myths falling by the wayside, being told Margaret Mead was wrong about Samoa doesn't come

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O UTSIDE of the legal profession, not too many heads were turning in February when the American Bar Association met

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W HEN FRANCOISE SAGAN, the celebrated French novelist, was hospitalized in the late 1970s for what turned out to be

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M OST CREATURES' brains secrete a simple substance which acts as the brain's own painkiller. Why should such an effective

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F EW SCIENTISTS WOULD tackle the subject of this book "Why we are what we are, why we do what