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...nation's top loot top were composed of seniors, leading "askins to expect the Wienet-Harvey i cant to dominate in next year's nationally with Dartmouth...
...need for a tour guide now and then: notes, terms, some scraps of biography. But surely the great books were written for people, and if they require the presence of middlemen, then they could never have been so great in the first place. So goes the cant...
Griliches counters that Harvard's efforts to lure away Dornbusch and Fischer have only been fair play. Explaining in the cant of his trade, he says. "It depends on your views of the virtues of competition." He adds that "the alternative would be to enter into a collusion agreement with MIT: If there is an opening at one place, no one at the other place will be eligible. Harvard and MIT would be monopolists deciding to divide the market. Maybe that would be to their benefit but would it benefit the profession...
...plain, dumb, silly mistake"; and discusses subjects as disparate as American literature, fatherhood and literary correspondence: "Everybody who has dominion over any kind of press space spends considerable time answering letters from convicted felons." On all of them he is diverting and refreshingly free of bias and political cant. The sea seems to affect him as it does the crew: disagreements on board-political, navigational and aesthetic-dissolve in a common affection for sailing...
...aggressive ranks of business leaders, there is room for a cloudy-headed dreamer with no sense of vocational direction. Career Insights has included his story n a section called "Pathways in Organizations," in which seven executives describe the job opportunities in their "functions," which is businessman's cant for the divisions of a corporation...