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...shudder at the 1950s, when men and women knew their place, when businessmen wore gray flannel suits, when white Anglo-Saxon Protestants dominated the membership of the power élite as if by right. Nowadays, we champion personal growth. We try to "keep it real." We celebrate diversity. We laugh at the narrow ties and clipped hair of postwar IBM and Ford Motor Co. whiz kids, and lionize instead the untidy entrepreneurialism of high-tech geeks like the young Bill Gates. We disdain order, and we cherish mess. Implicitly, we accept that the incivility and vulgarity which typify messy societies...
...It’s a tremendous opportunity,” Ventura said. “If you asked a boy from southern Minnesota if he would one day attend Harvard, he’d laugh...
...It’s always really tough to come out of exams at Harvard,” said Crimson coach David Fish, who added with a laugh that players are oftentimes, “ground down to their knees...
...dedicated,” the mailman says with a laugh. “You’re just lunatics...
Shaffer agreed that the speech was “sort of like when you go to a foreign film and people laugh at the jokes before you can get the subtitles...