Word: boys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finally, one other distressing aspect of your editorial. You wrote, "When women are excluded from the clubs, they are excluded from the unparalleled resources of the clubs and from the `old boy' alumni contacts which the clubs foster." Well, I hate to be the one to break the news, but...has anyone told you about Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy? Well, about these clubs....You know, I guess you could call a flooding basement an "unparalleled resource"...I mean, I know some guys in the Sahara who would kill for one of these. And our pool table is fairly...
...last words on the much revered, much vaunted "old boy" network that the clubs foster. Last spring I watched with growing horror as the few Wall Street firms that I applied to proceeded to toss my resume in the old circular file, despite my inconspicuously prominent mention of my club at the bottom. What about all those fabulously wealthy club alums who went on to run Wall Street? I guess they all jumped out the window after the October crash. reduced, like the slow cockroaches, to a pool of goo. I finally landed a job over 650 miles away from...
...truth is, if you mentioned the characteristics "old boy network" and "unparalleled resources" to students in all of the U.S.'s 4500 colleges, perhaps 80 percent would reply with the name Harvard. If you mentioned that you went there, they would reply, "Well, excuuuuuse me!" The popularly held myth about Harvard and its students is about as true as that about the club's alleged "financial" and "social elitism", which you loudly support and propagate. Do you really think it's true? You know, the grass really is greener in the yard next door...I would suggest that...
...Gore flopped utterly. He became a prisoner of his chief local patron, New York City Mayor Ed Koch, whose vituperative attacks on Jackson further polluted the city's dense ethnic atmosphere and totally obscured Gore's own image. Local TV cameras repeatedly captured Gore looking bewildered, like a farm boy being fleeced by a Times Square three-card-monte artist, as Koch lashed out at Jackson's shortcomings...
...LORDS: BASED ON A TRUE STORY (Enigma). Tough but graceful rock from a New York City-based band. No song has ever caught better than Cheyenne the hopeless romance of a city boy's vision of wide-open spaces...