Word: bostonianism
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JOHN D. TUNLOP is formidable in his role of every Bostonian whose last name begins with A. As Arnold, he concocts the ultimate bureaucratic vision--income stratification according to the first letter of each person's surname. "There's got to be inequality," Tunlop muses, putting down his Adam Smith. "The best we can do is to make poverty as arbitrary as possible...
...officials in Richard Nixon's Washington are held in higher esteem as masters of governmental management than is Elliot Lee Richardson, 52, the next Secretary of Defense-even though almost no one can adequately explain just why. The public Richardson is stuffily Bostonian, serenely confident, vaguely remote. His set speeches are bloodless and dull. His ad-lib language is so convoluted, yet grammatically correct, that one questioner at a Senate committee hearing jokingly confessed that he could not quite tell from a Richardson answer whether he was for, or against, drug abuse. Moreover, Richardson has been appointed...
...campaign operates in the "Get out and meet the people" tradition. She shows up at most of the candidates' nights around Boston (unlike Mayor White). Her manager and brother, John Day, says, "Louise is our strongest asset"; and the campaign relies heavily on Louise Day Hicks' image as a Bostonian among Bostonians...
...then Sumner Redstone cleared his throat, only too aware of the Paramount brass awaiting their introductions and the present Harvard administrators and his wife's eager friends certainly having the time of their dreary old Bostonian lives, and Sumner began his speech, only, to his horror, to meet with drunken laughter and then suddenly all he could see was some kid in a back row waving an empty bottle...
...infected the nation's chief health officer, Dr. Roger O. Egeberg, Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs. Only 17 months ago Egeberg was widely viewed as a man who could heal the wounds left by the White House's rejection of Dr. John Knowles, the controversial Bostonian who was originally slated to get the job. But last week all signs indicated that Egeberg will be ousted from his key post in the Health, Education and Welfare Department some time around the first of the year...