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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Two Centuries of Elitism | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...upstart tennis bats an poach a few quick sets from your weekly partner. Flaunt that ego But hurry, because the word-of-mouth fad has taken off like a Harold Solomon moon ball and soon your opponent will indulge himself with the weapon. Then you and your rival will both be using oversized racquets. Thus, eventually the racquets will neutralize each other and everyone will be serving from zero. But in tennis that means love...

Author: By Steven M. Arkow, | Title: Making Headway: A Prince Turns King | 12/4/1981 | See Source »

...fact, the Crimson may have harmed the Gay movement here at Harvard more than it helped. Straight students, which the Crimson says should "mobilize" with GSA, are fast becoming disenchanted with the constant barrage of Gay literature like the "Victory" piece. Moreover, the more militant Gays who publicly flaunt their homosexuality only generate greater resistance and resentment among "straights" who might otherwise have easily accepted the Gay movement. Who isn't offended by public sexuality--be it performed by Gays or straights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Stick in the Mud | 10/1/1981 | See Source »

...buys" lunch. Agutter's role is most difficult, for she is not given such an opportunity to step away from her job as walking chess piece. Only in the early love scenes with Jerry can she display any character at all, and there she can only laugh and sparkle, flaunt her yellow shirt and red skirt that are the only bright colors we see all evening...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Leiman, | Title: Mind Games | 11/12/1980 | See Source »

...consider lifting martial law when the April 6 Movement--which the dictator contends is linked to Aquino--pulled its convention bombing, and conspicuously called into question Marcos' capacity to maintain peace and order. The guerillas stopped short of assassinating Marcos (it appears they easily could have), preferring instead to flaunt their havoc-wreaking. For his part, Aquino denied any connection with the April 6 Movement, a fact even acknowledged by the terrorists who declared him their leader "even though he hasn't yet recognized...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Storm Warning | 10/31/1980 | See Source »

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