Word: falutin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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APART from the obvious silliness of all this high-falutin' posturing there is a subtler, more insidious suggestion. These ads are not designed for just any consumer, they're for the wealthy, the status-conscious, the elite. Literature and art can now do for high-priced luxury items what alligators and polo ponies did for those once-cheap cotton sport shirts--they imbue the product with an unmistakeable mark of prestige...
...difficult to resist, impossible to shrug off as another mini-version of a high falutin' charity gala. Formal dress was not required, and neither was false piety or sentiment. It was a come-as-you-are, come-to-be-entertained affair. By making their show a fast-moving, talent-packed one, the Jazz for Life organizers served the audience as well as Oxfam America and the Phillips Brooks House Homeless Committee, the evening's charity beneficiaries...
Rather than hi-falutin' talk we need new thinking-rigorous and cosmopolitan-about the role of Blacks at elite institutions like Harvard. When it is forthcoming we'll see new and viable behavior by Black alumni-not Black alumni weekends but large financial gifts by wealthy and not-so-wealthy Black alumni to endow professorships in African Studies or American Studies, like Armenian-American alumni endow in Armenian studies and for study of genocide in modern states, or Jewish American alumni endow in Middle Eastern Studies, or Irish-American alumni in Celtic Studies. It takes more rigorous reflection on these...
...this--the high falutin schemes, the dramatic oratories, the vaunted vision of Harvard--comes from a student who has been on-campus, full-time for a month, and who, he painfully recalls, was rejected by Harvard the first time around. He was spurned by the Big H In spite of--or perhaps because of--a welcoming address he gave several years ago as Phillips Exeter student council president that concluded with what he now calls the "classic, moronic statement of the decade": "I don't have to take this shit, I'm into Harvard...
...year last spring expressed confusion about the stringent Core guidelines, and doubts about how effective the guidelines were in producing the ideal Core courses. Robert C. Chapman, professor of English Literature, who teaches Literature and Arts A-11. "Theatre and Drama," called the goals of the new curriculum "high falutin'," adding he hoped his course was "within the limits of what the Core people wanted...