It made me realise that the bunch of managerial carrots which include positive assertions, directions, estimations, recognitions and, crucially, celebrations, was infinitely preferable to motivating sceptical, harried academics, or put upon administrators, with the flaccid stick of shame.
After all, one of the habitual recognitions of academics, at least in its more critical disciplines, is that the pursuit of knowledge and understanding can so quickly dissipate into meaninglessness.
Whether a flood of new recognitions will follow today's ruling remains to be seen, but would not be surprising.
He first gained note as an author with the publication of his controversial novel The Recognitions (1955).
A large number of recognitions may buttress a claim to statehood even in circumstances where the conditions for statehood have been fulfilled imperfectly (e.g., Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992).
The presiding officer first recognizes the mover of a proposition or the member of a committee presenting a report and endeavours to alternate recognitions between those favouring and those opposing a question.
Originally published in 1962 under the name Jack Green, the book is essentially a seventy-nine-page harangue against the critics whom he saw as having utterly failed to recognize the greatness of "The Recognitions".
If "The Recognitions" had been published fifty years later, "Fire the Bastards!" would probably be a Tumblr, and Green would be all over Twitter like a bad rash, trolling critics to within an inch of their lives.
