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...time he returned to the U.S. in 1973, he had decided to become a doctor. In a year of dedicated slogging, he took the necessary preliminary courses and then graduated from Columbia University's medical school. He was determined to join the CDC, much to the amusement and disdain of more success-oriented classmates. "I was called a Goody Two-Shoes," he remembers...
...says that too much gets promised. When he sat listening to Walter Mondale tell a California convention of Democrats that if elected he would right now, today, get Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov on the hot line and arrange a meeting right now, that very afternoon, Glenn in private showed disdain. He spotted Candidate Alan Cranston wearing a button that read STOP ACID RAIN NOW and shook his head. The emphasized now was too much for him. Glenn will offer no pies in the sky. "I'm just not going to run that way," he said...
...Judaeo-Christian patriarchy. See Julian, his 1964 novel about the apostate nephew of Constantino the Great. The second area that draws Vidal's scorn is American politics, which he dramatizes as a circus of opportunism and hypocrisy. See The Best Man; Washington, D.C.; Burr. The most freewheeling disdain is directed at popular culture, macho sexuality and social pretensions. See Myra Breckinridge; Myron...
...university populated by more than its share of over achievers and self promoters. Elliott has chosen to keep Bremen as his point of reference. He is exceptional in having proudly remained what many undergraduates disdain as "typical," or worse, "middle American." While his classmates fretted over professional school applications. Elliott quietly engineered legislative campaigns back home and penned a fiery political column that ran in the weekly Bremen Enquirer. Along the way, he set aside plans for law school to explore a new interest in American educational philosophy. He will begin teaching this fall at a small private school...
...Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims," wrote Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto of 1848. Yet once again, Michael T. Anderson '83, a self-proclaimed Marxist, attacks the Spartacist League for being too open with then politics, and for upsetting "the delicate balance" which keeps his radical-chic image intact...