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This doesn't mean that Harvard, or any other university, imposes an ideology from above. Instead, we create a kind of intellectual pressure cooker--a "peer pressure cooker." Thoughts that don't "fit" are treated with laughter or condescension If you've never been ridiculed by your friends before, try talking about reincarnation in the Winthrop House dining hall or saying that you don't think The New York Times is an impartial newspaper. Then you will discover that the good old knowing smile is the most affective way to kill an idea. It also hurts your feelings...
...even Ornstein confesses that something odd happens when all of this ambition and money come together in the 257-sq.-mi. Beltway cooker. Being the focus of national news creates an unwarranted sense of self-importance. Economic security diminishes sympathy and understanding. The concerns of Pittsburgh and Bakersfield and a thousand other places grow more and more remote...
...driving Secretary of the Treasury. After four grueling years in the White House, Baker had yearned for what he called "a less fast track." With the huge budget deficit and an ambitious tax- reform proposal dominating the domestic agenda, he had decided that Treasury, while less of a pressure cooker, "is where the action will be." Regan, former president and chairman of Merrill Lynch, had long eyed Baker's job from his Treasury post and readily traded his prestigious title for a position of greater power. Contended one of Regan's Treasury Department aides: "He considers the Executive Branch...
...longer pick our witches or our poets this way, but that is because moderns have little interest in either. When it comes to things they are interested in-doctors, lawyers, Presidents-they have replaced skull-bashing and suffocation with more subtle ordeals. Aspiring doctors must first survive the pressure cooker of a sleepless year of internship, aspiring lawyers the cutthroat paper chase of first-year law school. And those who aspire to the most exalted title of all, President, are required to traverse a campaign trail of Homeric peril. Its length is ludicrous: three years for any serious candidate...
...lids blew off the academic pressure cooker Saturday afternoon as hundreds of rafters and sun-bathers abandoned their books to experience the 13th annual Adams House Raft Race, between the Anderson and Weeks Bridges...