Word: pseudonymity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...typical interview is one done on Peter Mack (pseudonym), a first-rate football player who had 500 SAT scores. The interviewer wrote, "Peter Mack is perhaps the best motivated athlete we have had apply from this area in a long time" but also noted that he is academically "below the average Harvard standards." The rest of the report is an argument stressing Peter's leadership and athletic qualities ("Peter Mack is a leader. You can tell that when you walk into the locker room") and balancing this against his academic side ("Peter Mack is not a genius but..."). Harvard...
This season's most agreeable literary game is the counterfeiting of Victorian novels. From Brian Moore (The Great Victorian Collection) to Michael Crichton (The Great Train Robbery), no artificer plays the game more entertainingly than the writer who calls herself Leonie Hargrave. The pseudonym, notes the publisher coyly, "may be said to be the Maiden Name of an author both prolific and much praised for work in other modes...
Chou See Ahlek is a pseudonym for a Harvard student from Singapore who asked that his name not be used for fear of political repercussions...
...with the French ended, he was named deputy chief of staff to North Viet Nam's Defense Minister and legendary military strategist, General Vo Nguyen Giap. Tra returned to the South in 1965 to become head of the National Liberation Front's military committee and adopted the pseudonym Nam Trung...
...length from a paragraph to several pages, usually includes a physical description of the candidate, an evaluation of how well he thinks and articulates, and an assessment of how the candidate will do at Harvard. An excerpt from a typical interview drawn from an actual case read: "Robert Edwards [pseudonym] is one of the most likeable people I have ever met. He is a slow talking, relaxed young man with a tremendous grin...he is a warm, natural guy and should get along well here...he's a hard worker who has done reasonably well through hustle and determination...