Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kids run around trying on masks and swinging on clothes racks (they have them here, unlike downstairs), while older trick-or-treaters paw through jewelry and Manic Panic nail polish...
...Come Go With Me," they're singing along. After 25 minutes, the boys take a collective bow and blow out of the room, leaving the bankers to their drinks. The songs sound pretty good, the showmanship is high, and the polish is extraordinary. It should be. By 1999, the group has had 53 years to get it right...
...better or worse, the Kroks stand apart from their colleagues at Harvard. They are the oldest of the small, closed-harmony singing groups on campus, known (increasingly derisively) as the a capella groups. The Kroks' polish and tour itinerary are both unmatched, and their repertoire of songs from the 1920s through the 1950s has the kind of universal appeal that the contemporary pop tunes of other groups can't quite muster. They are reputed to have the highest budget per capita of any student organization at Harvard. Still, the Kroks are, in the end, a singing group. Cufflinks and secret...
...phrase, "obsessed with ethics." Listening to Purdy describe his zeal for Kant and Hegel, it's easy to see why certain critics can't help poking fun at him. Why so serious? And considering the status of Purdy's heroes--from the great French essayist Montaigne to the brave Polish dissident Adam Michnik--the objects of his derision seem like straw men. Purdy singles out for special scorn management guru Tom Peters, who teaches disciples to think of themselves as commercial, brand-named products; the cyber- magazines Wired and Fast Company, which promote, in Purdy's view, greed and self...
...past several months the Chicago police have been scrambling to polish their image. Each week, it seems, there are new reports of everything from brutality to deficient officer training. Of late, though, the cops are showing a softer side. Even the Chicago Tribune, which had published a series of negative reports about the department, last week featured the men and women in blue waxing poetic about the beat under soft light at a South Side precinct...