Date:  Fri, 24 Dec 1993 15:10:00 EST

From:  "Dennis.Preston" <22709MGR[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MSU.BITNET>

Subject: new words at ads



Dennis,

I think the send-ups of (P)MLA are mostly pretty easy on the organization (

and output) myself. I can't believe you didn't give your award to an article I

once saw as I leafed through a PMLA on a colleague's desk a few years ago. I

was not even particularly expecting to find my suspicions confirmed, but there

was 'Teeth in World Literature' (a paraphrase of the title I suspect).

Good stuff,

Happy Holidays,

{dInIs]

P.S.: On a sadder note, yes, I am also unhappy to see the trek of job-seekers

annually. On an even sadder note, now that we have imposed free-market (sic!)

economy on the rest of the world, the previously well-employed East European

academics (however reprehensible some parts of their system might have been)

are now out (at post-middle-age, something I am very sensitive to) struggling

to supplement a university income which not pay the inflated rent by hustling

translation and language teaching jobs (in the best of cases).

Sorry for unjolly images.