Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprise that Rosovsky, a successful economist, exudes self-assurance and has become the Faculty's golden boy. But some say he is too confident, say that in his dogged pursuit of what he believes he tends to judge issues in black and white terms, quickly becoming impatient with the nuances of the gray...
...Bill freshman year. He was a local boy, born and raised in the Boston area, and an outstanding pre-medical student. I did not see much of him during my sophomore year (his junior year). In fact, when I found him sitting in the middle of the hallway on the fourth floor of Barnard Hall at 6:30 a.m. one morning during my junior year, it was the first time I had seen him in at least eight months...
...drank little, exercised religiously and was partial to health food and pretty women. He was contemptuous of ordinary businessmen, including those who worked for him. Once, when a Getty executive ventured a suggestion, Getty dismissed it abruptly, saying that he was not about to listen to "a goddamned office boy." Modern corporate managers, he scoffed, were no more than "promoted clerks, engineers, salesmen...
...staff and had a pay telephone installed for his visitors' use. Said Getty: "My friends will understand, and, as for the spongers, well, I just don't care." Three years ago, when Italian gangsters kidnaped his grandson, Getty refused to pay ransom; the kidnapers cut off the boy...
...school in city planning, with the goal of somehow changing society. "The atmosphere of those years must have rubbed off on me," Garrett said. But he decided that he didn't want that type of career, so he started working at the old Boston Record-American as head office boy. After a year of running errands, Garrett got a break and started writing for the paper...