Word: old-boy
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...many ways, Long was the spitting image of his daddy. Both were flamboyant orators, given to bursts of wild energy and extravagant gestures. But whereas the father was a radical who preached a sharing of the wealth and derided the Senate's old-boy clubbiness, the son was known to court Big Business and never felt so comfortable as in the clannish, wood-paneled environs of the Capitol...
...John Harvard got into Cambridge by usingsomething that innumerable students since haveused: the "old-boy network...
...always tell a Harvard story when it appears in the media. They're the ones about the famed "Harvard mystique," the envied "Harvard old-boy network" and the "much-imitated Core Curriculum." But as the stories longingly leer at Harvard's financial prowess, or snidely sneer at its fall from the top of the academic mountain, you can't always tell much from them...
...party of F.D.R. toward the center in time for the '88 elections. Applicants do not necessarily have to come from the Sunbelt, but should appeal to Sunbelt voters. Blacks, Hispanics and women welcome, although ties to unions and other special-interest groups may be held against you. Old-line old-boy liberals need not apply...
...televise or not to televise has been a controversial question. The Senate killed three previous attempts, in 1981, 1982 and 1984, to allow video coverage. Those opposed to cameras in the chamber feared that exposure would forever alter the leisurely, idiosyncratic, old-boy nature of the Senate, which allows unlimited debate and endless quorum calls, and that the public would not understand or approve the legislators' arcane customs. "Unlimited debate," said Louisiana Democrat J. Bennett Johnston, "is not a pretty thing to watch on television . . . It is a messy, untidy spectacle to watch, but I think it is vital...