Word: legacyism
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It was a clothing and fabric designer named Vuokko Nurmesniemi, who worked for Marimekko only from 1953 to 1960, who really forged the brand's simple styles and its legacy of distinctive silhouettes, including that of Kennedy's shift. As for the company's eye-popping Tasaraita stripes, these were...
...feeble-minded,” but his words also sum up one attitude towards Harvard’s legacy admissions. You can frequently hear muttering about how unfair it is that Harvard is admitting legacies over equally—or even more—qualified candidates. Anti-legacyism is the last acceptable prejudice. These underqualified, overprivileged, moderately pasty folk need to stop slipping over the admissions border and stealing everyone’s slots. Or so the argument goes.Harvard’s admitted tendency to “take a second look” at legacy applicants continues...
Four decades later, a group of 10 Harvard students spent their spring breaks traveling through Mississippi to explore the legacy of the civil rights movement, and to discover how much civil rights and student advocacy have changed since then.
Some Pentagon officials, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates, had hoped to continue the drawdown in order to relieve the strain of repeated combat tours on U.S. troops and their families. But Gates recently sided with Petraeus on the wisdom of a period of "consolidation and assessment" expected to last at...
BUILDING A LEGACY