Word: molloy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advisers offer "personal public relations" guidance on looking and acting like an expert in a particular field. Clients are even taught how to stand for success. John T. Molloy, one of the most successful imagemakers, says that the "power stance" is with arms hanging down, feet apart, almost in a military fashion...
...rquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, written for a course in the Spanish-American novel. In it she cited five quotations, appropriately footnoted, from a scholarly reference work by Josefina Ludmer. But after examining the paper carefully, Napolitano's professor, Sylvia Molloy, discovered that Ludmer was quoted far more often than the footnotes indicated. Molloy charged that Napolitano deliberately changed the page numbers of quotations cited by Ludmer to correspond to those in her own edition of the García Márquez novel. "The paper Gabrielle Napolitano has turned in," Molloy informed Assistant Dean...
...Finally, Molloy maps out a role for executive wives, so that they too can live for success, albeit their husband's. Molloy regales the reader with parables of careers fallen victim to poor marriages, later-day. Eves whose slight inebriations at social functions and general lower-class habits have expelled their husbands from their professional paradises. His tone concerning one wife who publicly gulped a martini is solemn: "It so happened that his wife was a surgeon, and may have had a very good reason for wanting that martini, but it killed his career nevertheless...
That wives may amend their lives properly. Molloy offers a quiz for executive wives, including such vital points as: "6 I shop for my clothing at the same stores as the wives of my husband's co-workers,"..."11 I immediately spot someone with poor table manners,"..."12 Although most of the homes in my area are in the same price category. I can immediately tell when I walk in the door whether the people who live there are professionals and executives." Molloy tells women who answered all 16 questions in the affirmative to congratulate themselves, and all who answered...
...book's cover boasts a huge picture of an impeccably clad, somewhat arrogant-looking executive, presumably Molloy himself. If the book does anything, it portrays the vapidness of the "success" for which this man lives. Dickinson said, "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed." Perhaps this explains Molloy's peculiar fascination with the subject...