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...facts of life. But a well-placed kiss on certain key fundaments in this institution can have truly ridiculous results, rocketing the intellectually and morally supple so far into the social and professional stratosphere that is proves not only that life is unfair, it's unreasonable. The concentration of careerist power in this place is so heavy that in certain key seminars you feel like you're present at Louis XIVth's toilet, a court jester competing for the Great One's favor...
...this accident of the heart, she writes, "I don't think I would ever have come here for I am not attracted--or used not to be attracted --to the things that usually bring people to India." She was not, in short, a do-gooder, a foreign-service careerist or a spiritual pilgrim. But her European background and natural desire to sympathize with her adopted land made her an acute observer. She began turning out novels, stories and a string of screenplays (including Shakespeare Wallah), creating piecemeal a territory that became increasingly familiar to a growing audience as Jhabvala...
Ozment places most of the blame for declining quality on "careerist, grade-grubbing and narrows" students. "A critique has to be made of the present culture of youth," he says...
...exception was Gromyko. During Khrushchev's time he made a decision, which proved to be inspired, to cultivate Brezhnev. While others saw Brezhnev as a colorless, unimaginative party careerist without distinction, luck and instinct made Gromyko see something more. Gromyko took Brezhnev's responsibilities as nominal head of state seriously...
More's writing expressed the agonized self-contradiction of an up-to-date careerist pursued by ancient demons. Marius rates him as "the greatest English storyteller between Chaucer and Shakespeare." The wit and irony that would soon mark the best Elizabethan playwrights already distinguished More. Like his friend Erasmus, More revered classical Greece. His masterpiece, Utopia (1516), a fantasy of the ideal commonwealth, imagined human beings so perfectly ruled by logic that they were happy to own no property and to labor modestly and endlessly for the common good...