Word: career
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...extent that business schools are sponsored by universities, they inevtiably make an institution whose aim is to teach the liberal arts seem somewhat anachronistic. Why is a classroom sacred? Why should it be something other than just a place to learn the tools for a future career? For reasons which are not easy to define, it is good to believe that a classroom must be kept uncontaminated by careerism. And thus it is nice to hear Dean Burton waxing metaphysical on the sanctity of learning, even as he heads a school whose purpose is to train businessmen...
...sense, the only thing against Luce was her ability to play many roles and break all the rules, as a woman conquering what was primarily a man's world. As one of the first great career women in American history, Luce found herself alternately patronized by those who saw her only as a woman and anathematized by those who saw only her career. For some, she was too elegant to be intelligent, for others too sharp-witted to be ladylike. An early feminist whose most famous play showed women at their cattiest, a formidable grande dame of high society...
...trajectory of Luce's career was especially dramatic given the modesty of her origins. Her mother was a former chorus girl, her father a violinist who . deserted his family when his daughter was nine. Before long, however, Clare Boothe was decorating her resume. In 1913 she was Mary Pickford's understudy in a play titled A Good Little Devil; by eleven she had written a play of her own; and at 16 she had run away from home to work in a factory making paper favors. When her mother remarried, she began to enjoy her first taste of society...
...PRINCESS Bride is also plagued by an inept and poorly directed cast. Andre the Giant is endearing but inarticulate in his cameo role. Wallace Shawn, star of My Dinner With Andre, must have drunk too much in that flim, and after this role he should reconsider his career. And Wright, who makes her film debut in The Princess Bride should get out of acting before it is too late...
...Penn, the cowbell was quiet. The Quakers beat Columbia, 31-19. At least, my uncle had a career...