Word: curleyism
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...Nicholson '76 approached Thomas J. Curley '78 that way last spring, and Curley was interested. He didn't have a job lined up for the summer, and the money certainly sounded good. But after a few weeks of working for Southwestern Publishing Co. last summer in Tucson, Ariz., Curley packed up and went home...
...Curley and Rinehart say their week of sales training in Nashville was very regimented. They woke up at 6 a.m.--or earlier--and took a cold shower, on the instructions of their Southwestern sales managers. Until 8 a.m. they read "inspirational materials," which Rinehart says seemed to be written by life insurance salesmen...
...says he's got 20 pounds more to lose and that he looks so thin because he's playing an old trick that Jimmy Curley originated. "When you want people to feel sorry for you, you try and look like a sick old man--you wear big clothes...
Hardly a model politician. Yet when faculty members of the political-science and urban-studies departments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology scheduled a series of six programs on Curley, there was standing room only in a large campus lecture hall. Why? Students seemed to be drawn by the highly personalized politics that Curley symbolized-a far cry from what one participant described as "the lack of charisma, of wit and imagination, and of unpredictability in modern politics." Declared Boston Mayor Kevin White: "Charismatic leadership is hungered for, but at the same time we fear it." Should there be another...
...Curley grew up shanty-Irish poor and with a hatred of the Yankee establishment. The Brahmins groaned at his political record (elected four times as mayor of Boston, four times as a Congressman, once as Governor of Massachusetts) and at his jail record (two months behind bars in 1904 for taking a civil service examination for an illiterate friend, and five months for mail fraud in 1947 during his fourth term as mayor...