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...flowers of poshlost bloom in such phrases and terms as 'the moment of truth,' 'charisma,' 'existential' (used seriously), 'dialogue' (as applied to political talks between nations) and 'vocabulary' (as applied to a dauber). Listing in one breath Auschwitz, Hiroshima and Viet Nam is seditious poshlost. Belonging to a very select club (which sports one Jewish name, that of the treasurer) is genteel poshlost. Hack reviews are frequently poshlost, that is simple, but it also lurks in certain highbrow essays. Poshlost calls Mr. Blank a great poet, and Mr. Bluff a great novelist. One of poshlost's favorite breeding places...
There are still plenty of the old-fashioned, stereotyped recruitment pitches, too. Hopefully, Mr. Sayre, a great many more companies will have revised not only their recruiting approaches, but also the way they handle college graduates who do come aboard, by the time you are ready to select your career...
...test scores are used to select candidates for admission and IQ scores are also disregarded. Reading and writing samples, school records and personal recommendations, "and a lot of intuiton" are taken into consideration, Ryerson explains. "We have kids who dropped out of high school. We have kids who, when they came, never thought they could go to college," he adds...
Organized by Marcel Landowski, music director of Andre Malraux's Ministry of Culture, the Orchestre de Paris chose its members as a cordon bleu chef would select truffles. All are conservatory prizewinners, including Bulgarian-born Lubin Yordanoff, 41, who left his first chair in the Monte Carlo National Orchestra to join the Paris group as concertmaster. Fifty-two of its members are from the recently disbanded Paris Conservatory Orchestra, an above-average ensemble in its day. The salary range, high for Paris, runs from $620 to $820 a month, counterbalanced by an exclusivity clause in each contract forbidding...
...Exams. Tokyo's pressure-packed universities are the result of the postwar democratization of Japan and its booming economy. Before World War II, parental status or unusual brilliance was essential to university admission; now, a secondary-school graduate need only pass the entrance examination of the university he selects-but so many select the same few that the rate of rejection is 20 to 1 at some schools and 9 to 1 nationwide. Beginning in kindergarten, much of lower schooling aims at the exams. Preparing for them and taking them is such a traumatic ordeal that thousands of suicides...