Word: egalitarian
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Murdoch, however, does not practice an egalitarian management style. Despite pledges made to Parliament that he would respect the editorial independence of the Times, Murdoch forced out Editor Harold Evans after a year of editorial and budgetary wrangling. He indulges a love for details, whether it is writing a headline for the Post or keeping in constant touch with his worldwide holdings by telephone. As a boss, he can be emotional, impulsive and demanding. "Murdoch runs a Byzantine court," says a former Sun-Times executive. "There is only one decision maker...
...short, Teeters walks the tightrope between the egalitarian ideal and the reality of status. Merrymount society allows him to play the game, though it does not spell out the regulations. Rule 1 is that friendliness and even sexual intimacy do not automatically confer acceptance. Rule 2 is that the home team gets to suspend Rule 1 whenever it wants to flaunt its self- assurance. Cynthia Pickles, local ice princess and founder of Overview ("a journal of opinion for all sides"), coolly sleeps with Teeters, accepts his nuptial propositions but marries smooth, rich Jerry Chirouble. Pickles' underclass equivalent is Toby Snapper...
...confidante," wrote a wistful Winston Churchill of his beloved Mrs. Everest. American aristocrats such as Franklin Roosevelt also had treasured nannies, but will the new nanny to the upper middle class have a similar impact? That will take a generation to discover. Meanwhile, they are charting a new egalitarian course between the pantry and the parlor. Says Bunge: "They're not servants and they're not new sisters. What are they? That's what the nannies have to figure out." Mary Poppins may be an outdated stereotype, but it just may take a spoonful of sugar--or two--to help...
...through intrarace relations that create a greater cultural awareness and a greater cultural solidarity. This is done through Black singing groups and Black history courses and Third World centers, precisely the groups and activities that Kilson says add up to "excessive ethnocentric behavior," which he calls "dysfunctional to the egalitarian goals of parity for Blacks in institutional participation." The professor never defines "excessive" ethnocentricity, but he constantly puts down this quality in favor of "cosmopolitanism." But this feeling of ethnic belonging is crucial in motivating these future doctors to heal and not to steal, future lawyers to make justice work...
...Crimson eight to spend more time writing about--namely, the growing cosmopolitanization of their lifestyles, dispersing beyond the one dimensional ethnic cocoon of Black roommates. Black dining tables, Black singing groups, etc. etc. These cosmopolitans among Harvard Black students recognize that excessive ethnocentric behavior is dysfunctional to the egalitarian goals of parity for Blacks (and other weak groups) in institutional participation, leverage, and clout in American society...