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LETTER:Charitable charade of academia
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From Mr Robert Allen
Sir: Germaine Greer's criticisms of the university presses make
no sense. If she wants more people to read books, it cannot be
right to tax them. Books are not ordinary commodities, any more
than food or children's shoes are.
In the Eighties, Oxford University Press published a monograph
of mine on the Hellenistic kingd...
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Liberating Germaine Greer.
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; I never met Germaine Greer, but I did see her once in live performance--and a most diverting performance it was. The year, as I remember it, was 1970. Norman Mailer had recently published a very long article on the then newly declared women s revolution and had succeeded, as was his wont, in
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Germaine's rage is still right on the nail Critics charge that Germaine Greer's new book is rehashing an old dish, but LESLEY GARNER believes she speaks for the plight of many modern women
Evening Standard - London
; THREE cheers for Greer. The older she gets the more dangerously close she becomes to being a living national treasure. Far from being a rehashed dish of yesterday's ideas, a cold table of leftovers, her new book looks like being a shocking jolt to the taste buds. Professor Greer, 60, has cooked a
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GERMAINE GREER AT HER BEST
The Boston Globe
; THE MADWOMAN'S UNDERCLOTHES. Essays and Occasional Writings, by Germaine Greer. Atlantic Monthly Press. 307 pp. $17.95. Germaine Greer bolted from Australia in 1964 at 25 to write her doctoral thesis in Cambridge, England, on the early plays of Shakespeare. Then almost as soon as she finished her
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Arts Wales: Germaine Greer at Swansea.(Features)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; FEMINIST icon Germaine Greer will speak at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea on July 5. For details call 01792 463980.
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Dr. Grrrr Germaine Greer returns, angry as ever
Chicago Sun-Times
; The Whole Woman By Germaine Greer. Knopf. $25. Germaine Greer Untamed Shrew. By Christine Wallace. Faber and Faber. $27.50. `It's time," announces Germaine Greer in the preface - or "recantation" - to her new book, "to get angry again." Oh. Had she stopped? According to her biographer, Christine
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