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Especially noteworthy was the 1972 International Conference on Lexicography in English, a landmark event that attracted foreign as well as American scholars and practitioners.
Stanley Fish, the flamboyant Milton scholar, legal theorist, and academic celebrity (David Lodge based his jet-setting Professor Morris Zapp on him), has left Duke University and the English department to which he attracted a parade of stars and controversies.
Before the Soviets took over, Azerbaijan was a boom country that attracted hundreds of European speculators.
Yet the group was fragile, dependent on a few key personalities, and occasionally left vulnerable by the marginal, unstable people often attracted to such causes.
It goes without saying that most of those drawn to lexicography, like those attracted to art schools, exhibit skills more likely to be associated with craft than with art; these days, far too few of those who work on dictionaries have a thorough grounding in literature, let alone the various specialties within linguistics—general and comparative studies, classical and modern foreign language study, phonetics, philology, etymology, to say nothing of lexicology and lexicography.