Word: mosley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aristocratic Disdain. Biographer Skidelsky, who teaches at Johns Hopkins, works hard at creating a sympathetic and revealing study of the root of Mosley's fascism. A shameless elitism and a longing for an almost feudal sense of self-sufficient community, a revulsion against war caused by his experiences in 1914, and an aristocrat's disdain for the middle class are primary elements in Mosley's career. The author goes soupy, however, when it comes to explaining Mosley the man. A comparison to Goethe's Faust-who used evil to gain a higher good-is material...
Harvard admitted 55 transfer students this year, 24 of whom are women, under an experimental policy of equal access admissions, Calvin N. Mosley, associate director of Harvard admissions for transfers, said Friday...
...Mosley said the relatively small number of transfer applicants to Harvard--425 students--may have resulted from last year's moratorium on transfers, during which Harvard did not accept any resident transfers and only two non residents. "That scared people off," he said...
...Mosley also said that Harvard this year told in-coming sophomores that it preferred only juniors to apply, in order to equalize competition, but added that this idea had not worked as well as Harvard had wanted...
...Mosley said, "We tried to see the dynamics, reach an understanding of the emphases, and learn the kinds of biases of the staff members...