Word: careerist
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...year was the Radcliffe residents' drive to keep a higher percentage of women in their Houses than there are at Harvard, to maintain an "unfair" distinctiveness in the Quad Houses. And even if Aldrich's party of fairness existed, its members would not necessarily find themselves opposed to the careerists. There is no reason a pre-med would be any more likely to favor master's choice than a non-careerist VES major; conversely, a fairist could as easily be an egalitarian pre-law student as some one with no plans past tomorrow...
...have etched humiliation on their souls. Faced with her husband's latest infidelity, Chloe decides to spend a day in London visiting Marjorie and Grace. They too are in their early 40s, their pasts a stream of errors. Grace has become a shrill hoyden, Marjorie an asexual careerist. They bicker and discuss each other's failings with a cool dispassion usually reserved for inanimate objects...
...kibbutz, tucked into the folds of rural Connecticut. The husband and wife team has been selected by Fletcher Hardesty, a stodgy opinionated executive, to run his fiefdom after his retirement. Roger, the husband loves his job, but then he's got all the responsibility. Wife Pat, a talented aggressive careerist who's got the chance to make it big in the women's mag biz, loathes the crystal and china tea service life of a corporation hausfrau. She starts to come down strong on the jaunty Roger for not considering her professional objectives and personal needs in their life...
...many ways he is. And that late "bourgeois careerist, renegade and traitor" Lin Piao is far from being the only one to fall under his influence. As the mounting ideological attacks on the "four olds" (old thought, old culture, old customs and old habits) indicate, the traditional Confucian values have died hard in China and remain an obstacle to the success of Mao's revolution...
...this. As in his earlier volumes he maintains, through Jenkins, the tolerantly amused air of a man who can come to terms with almost anything, preferably over drinks and with some gossip and a laugh or two thrown in. He can even endure Kenneth Widmerpool, that bumptious, obtuse careerist who has moved like an inexorable force through the entire series. Widmerpool, it now appears, is never going to get the comeuppance he deserves. In Temporary Kings he has a close scrape over a bit of cold-war espionage, but extricates his questionable honor and career, typically, at the expense...