Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Herbert's steely, in-your-face style complemented Robert's gentler, laid- back manner. A Harvard Business School graduate, Robert founded Crown Books in 1977 and built it into one of the first successful book discount chains with his pitch "Books just cost too much!" Herbert took pride in such achievements and kept increasing his son's responsibilities. Since the two fell out last spring, however, Robert has been reduced to waiting outside the Washington Post offices at 3:45 a.m. to read the latest developments in the family feud; the only communications he gets from his father are daily...
...lawyers convene this week in New York City for the A.B.A.'s annual meeting. And they're not being oversensitive, either. A poll published by the National Law Journal last week concluded that "resentment of lawyers -- ranging from lawyer-bashing jokes to outright vilification -- is running at a fever pitch." Seventy-three percent of the 815 Americans polled believe that there are too many lawyers. Only 5% said they would recommend law as a profession to their children. Concedes incoming A.B.A. president R. William Ide III: "We're sort of getting kicked in the shins...
...relaxation. Just as I turn away from thesis research and writing for fun to experience things like real life and other people this summer, I'll do the same in the fall. While the constant anxiety may reach a fever pitch during senior year, outsiders should never underestimate the Harvard student's ability to stave off that guilt with a healthy dose of denial. All over the planet, we live out our lives in the same pattern, and for some reason, after driving us crazy for four years, it works...
Sustaining the fever pitch of identity politics is easier when all students expect to benefit academically or personally from the enshrinement of difference. Identity politics issues must therefore evolve in a way that directly interests everyone...
Ouzama N. Nicholson '94, an undergraduate admissions recruiter, says the climate for Blacks at Harvard is so oppressive and tense at times, that she sometimes is reluctant to give her sales pitch to the Black students she tries to recruit...