Word: limpert
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Nonetheless, Limpert would choose to return to New York after his four years at Harvard were finished...
...addition, Limpert laments the loss of what he calls “New England and Boston influence” on Harvard life. While he considers some aspects of Puritan sensibility “laughable,” Limpert says that its values promoted the ideal of a serious, earnest life...
...Harvard, to the Brooklyn-born Limpert, also offered a reprieve from the unbridled materialism of New York City. He says he remembers Boston as a place where intellect was privileged above all else...
...York was always a place where the making of money was the most important thing in the world,” Limpert says. “Contrast that with the Boston of [the 1950s], where the most important thing was the life of the mind. In Boston they ask, ‘What do you know?’ In New York, they ask, ‘How much are you worth...
...Commencement loomed, Limpert began mulling over his career options. John H. Updike ’54, his predecessor as Lampoon president, encouraged his literary pursuits...