4/11/2023 0 Comments Jackson family estate v tumblr![]() (Recently, the President of my University put forward five-year plan defined as “a bold new initiative to advance the University beyond a comprehensive research institution to better position it for the future.”) ![]() Silly five-year plans are everywhere, especially in the academia. It is now more than 60 years after my first encounter with a five-year plan, and I still cringe painfully whenever I read about these obscenities.įollowing the fall of the Berlin Wall, I thought I shall never encounter this style again. At the end of the year, I stood in front of an audience of teachers, parents, and party bosses and read aloud the following immortal sentence: “We, the proletariat, pledge to fulfill the five-year plan in four years.” The local communist bosses seemed pleased with my reading of their text. One of the most ridiculous and inadvertently hilarious genres in nonfiction is the “five-year plan.” I became acquainted with this literary form in my first grade in Communist Romania.
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