March 24, 2000
Sex, Souls, and Midlife Crises: a New Play Set in Academe Pits Art Against Life
The midlife crisis is hardly a creation of the academic world, but maybe university life nourishes such crises in unique ways. Scholars age, but their students don't, as life unfolds according to a fixed calendar that governs daily life from one year to the next.
Professors themselves control the fate of their colleagues, deciding who gets hired, who gets tenure, and whose work is worthiest.
Scholars might spend much of their early careers developing academic specialties, only
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