Word: delgrosso
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...Among them is a generous sprinkling of leaders in government and business, as well as a lion's share of professors. For new job seekers, the benefits of carrying a key are hard to assess. "Quite frankly, sometimes it's a hindrance," says John Delgrosso, an administrator at New York University. "People are seen as overqualified, and other people feel threatened by that." Most corporations hire out of graduate school and judge applicants accordingly. But a spokesman at a New York brokerage firm admits: "A key is something we'd look at twice...
Whatever the value, the attitude today is "If you've got it, don't flaunt it." A key is rarely sported on a vest chain or dangled haughtily over a decolletage. Says Delgrosso: "You see it at law school and medical school interviews. After that it goes back in the drawer." All perfectly fitting, suggests Harvard's John Finley, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus. The key is not for success, he says. "It is for vision, the The founder, John Heath quest for understanding...
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