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...There is an aristocracy to which the sons of Harvard have belonged and, let us hope, will ever aspire to belong." Eliot should know; when he came to Harvard he was related by blood or marriage to sizeable chunk of the faculty and administration. It's not quite so close-knit now, but Introducing Harvard maintains, "No description of the educational process at Harvard could be complete without mentioning the college's historic function: educating the sons and daughters of the nation's elite...
...popularity rests, above all, on the change of tone he has brought to the White House. In contrast to his immediate predecessors, he is approachable, conciliatory and not consumed by personal ambition. He has divested the presidency of its imperial pretensions-with the invaluable assistance of his close-knit but independent-minded family (see page 10). So intent is he on demythologizing the nation's highest office that he has put a virtual ban on the playing of Hail to the Chief; he prefers to hear bands strike up the University of Michigan fight song, The Victors...
...forces that shaped Jackson included the prolabor, internationalist traditions of Washington State, and his close-knit family. Born May 31, 1912, he was the youngest of four children in a working-class family in Everett, a small mill town 28 miles north of Seattle. His Lutheran parents had emigrated from Norway in the 1880s; Father Peter was a cement worker, Mother Marie was a stern but loving matriarch who infused in her son a strong sense of right and wrong...
Nowadays the Harvard Employees Organizing Committee is pretty well settled into a routine of unionizing activity--a routine that revolves around the Monday night meetings of its core committee, a close-knit group of about 20 that plans general strategy. After its meetings, most of the core committee repairs for a late dinner to Cardell's, an old steak-and-beer place on Brattle Street...
Despite his fire-eating anti-Israel rhetoric, Arafat in private is quiet, almost self-effacing. He seldom talks about himself or his past life, largely, it seems, because he wants to avoid creating a personality cult. Within Al Fatah and the P.L.O., he has no close-knit circle of advisers or a kitchen cabinet. At staff meetings he solicits opinions from everyone, picking and choosing from the advice given him. Compared with Egypt's expansive President Sadat or even with the zealous George Habash, Arafat has little in the way of charisma, but he can inspire devotion nonetheless. In part...