Word: big-shot
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...chairman of the History Department, Wallace T. MacCaffrey, blamed the dearth of course offerings on circumstances. A number of big-shot professors are on leave this year and the department has been unable to find "qualified" teachers to fill the department's gaps, he said. He did not mention, however, the circumstances with which Harvard upperclassmen are sadly familiar--the University's neglect of its students' educations. This is not the first time history students have been left stranded; a few years ago European history concentrators found themselves in the same bind as this year's American history students...
...find much sympathy for your skiinjury," it began cruelly. "You deserve it for the soft life you've been handed, you bastard. I hope it mends in time for your next big-shot fete. If it doesn't, maybe you can make up a good story about how you got your limp, one that Zbiggy or Gore or Truman or Jackie will swallow like hot pate...
...much as he campaigns, and by playing the self-effacing buffoon, manipulates his audiences. When he appeared on a radio show several years ago with several Harvard medical students, he walked in after the show had started, pointed a finger at the students and said, "Are you a big-shot? It's because of people like you that we don't have national health insurance." He spoke virtually uninterrupted for an hour...
...college. And so he came to Harvard to pick up some culture and a little polish and a pretty girlfriend. Carlo had no pretensions. But he set out to learn a few. And what better place to learn them than at Harvard, with its musty classrooms and its big-shot professors and its hordes of rich preppies who all wore alligator shirts and drank fine Scotch before going to class? Unfortunately, 8 Prescott St. was not a very good place to learn pretensions...
...been blessed with influence-I think they very seldom suffer when the Government makes a mistake. I want to make sure that we get away from that, and I believe that the powerful are eager to see that done as well. It is not a deliberate thing: that the big-shot crooks go free-they never go to jail-and that the average American who violates a law has a much greater chance of going to jail. That's not right. It is not fair, and it is not decent...