Word: bowe
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...while Harvard students had grown accustomed to turning to the man with a bow-tie and a flower in his lapel to address their concerns, Lewis and several administrators at other colleges argue that one does not need to be called a "dean of students" to be a dean of students. At other schools, they argue, administrators who hold titles akin to those of Dingman and Herschbach, or even Lewis often fulfill Epps' responsibilities...
...this and much more come from a 48-year-old innocent anarchist; his language has the touch of the poet and of the bomb thrower; he looks like actor James Woods in a bow tie. He thinks abstractly, making it equally fascinating and difficult to talk to him, since he turns nearly every contribution one makes to the conversation into a refinement of his theories...
...know, it used to be major thumbs up when I was 20 but now I see it and I am just thinking, why's there that thing with Ally Sheedy getting made over at the end with the bow in her hair so that she can go out with Emilio Estevez? That's a triumph? I mean, that's really a triumph--for the cool artsy girl to realize that the only way to get a guy is to put make-up on, put her hair up in a bow, get rid of her black turtleneck and leggings?! That...
...likes of Thomas Frank, whose thesis is irrefutable: In this new gilded age, in which Sport Utility Vehicles abound and frequent flier perks become sweeter every year, our culture has one driving motivation, one underlying sense of consciousness, one theme--the unbridled cult of materialism. All must bow to the almighty corporation, the omnipotent dollar...
Then what? Starr will be able to command hefty sums practicing law, writing a book, giving lectures or advising corporate boards. And he will probably indulge his passion for teaching, as he planned to do in 1997 when he accepted a dual deanship at Pepperdine University, only to bow out and lose the opportunity after he was accused of abandoning ship. Whatever job Starr ends up taking instead, will he ever be able to shake his sense of unfinished business left behind...