Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Corporation considered whether to replace Blum with an academic or to maintain its mix of two lawyers, two businessmen, and two academics, but decided that during the capital campaign the extra businessman would help, Putnam said. He added that Heiskell would probably not serve for more than five or six years...
Candidates who have not yet received invitations include Gen. Alexander Haig, former Supreme Commander of NATO, Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) and Benjamin Fernandez, a chicano California businessman...
...figure is imposing-tall, a bit jowly, dressed like a businessman in a dark three-piece suit. The backdrop, massed American flags and a 33-member choir of attractive college kids scrubbed to a sparkle, is Fourth of July inspiring. The words are measured out in an avuncular bass. God loves America above all nations, the preacher says, but the U.S. is sure giving heaven a hard time. Amens come from the crowd as the pastor inveighs against all the "infidels and in-for-hells." He scourges the Federal Government for fostering socialism, the public school system for making "humanism...
Each local Harvard club has a character determined by the people most active in it. William D. Rice '56, a Rochester businessman, tells of his visit to the Harvard Club of Buffalo, N.Y. "Buffalo is supposed to be friendly, and Rochester, people say, is stuffy," he says, but when he walked into a Buffalo party no one spoke to him for 45 minutes. Finally he approached the one friendly-looking face in the crowd, but it turned out to belong to a visiting Princeton alumnus...
Alexa's husband is accorded the same, insensitive treatment. An eager, upwardly mobile businessman, his agony and rage at being left is trivialized into a despicable obsession with keeping up appearances. In making her case for sexual tolerance, Serreau commits reverse discrimination. This lack of tolerance flaws but does not destroy the impact of Pourquoi Pas! The film gives promise of great things to come from Coline Serreau...