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...liberal-to-left wing of the Democratic Party is especially dubious, fearing that his independence may be a camouflage for a closet conservative. He is also not part of the old-boy liberal network. When he won in New Hampshire, liberals held some anguished meetings about what to do. Says Joseph Duffey, director of the American Association of University Professors: "The anti-Carter sentiment is the cultural provincialism of a group that finds it hard to relate to someone who is neither a knee-jerk liberal nor an ideologue." Mark Shields, a Washington-based Democratic campaign consultant, believes the "problem...
...mayoral ex-candidate). Buckley's spy thriller is set in the early '50s, when Stalin was in the Kremlin, Joe McCarthy was "going after the fags" in the State Department and all was right with the cold war. Blackford Oakes, Yale '51, is pipelined by the old-boy network straight into the CIA. His assignment proves crucial to the survival of the West. Someone close to England's Queen Caroline is leaking American H-bomb secrets to the reds. With nary a false step, Oakes foils this villainous plot and gets as close to the Queen...
Affirmative action depends upon the good faith of the individuals who make hiring decisions, and many of the individuals at Harvard have shown an unwillingness to change Harvard's traditional, old-boy system of hiring...
...experience of meeting a new person only by pretending his guest is someone he al ready knows, a fellow whose wife he once proudly seduced. Gielgud humors him with a sly expression of disbelief; his viola voice emerges to play, tease, and finally wound in a fumbled attempt at old-boy friendship. Richardson, ever the literary prig, rejects him: "Let us change the subject. For the last time." He commits his soul to his servants, two North London roughnecks with a sheen of airline-steward manners, and slides willingly into no man's land, "which never changes, which never...
...greater fear is the concern of some instructors that open files will foster an "old-boy network" where teachers will pass on only verbal opinions of students. Bowersock speaks of an "old-boy network in the worst way," where "some people resort more to telephone calls, talks in corners, or statements that can't be recorded or denied...