Word: shelteredness
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Furthermore, the Board of Overseers is hardly the seat of power in this University. To date, it has served a largely passive and advisory role to the seven-member Corporation. That three overseers on this board of 30 seems a threat to the sheltered bureaucrats that run Harvard indicates the...
Hazards of the Midas touch is a theme common to both books. Lenzner's The Great Getty is more detailed and better organized and written than Russell Miller's The House of Getty, which contains such cliches as "fruit of his loins" and repeatedly uses the bush-league redundancy "consensus...
FROM THE MOMENT you receive your application packet, Harvard admissions officers start hammering the notion of diversity into your head. Convinced, you sign on. Looking forward to escaping from the sheltered environment of a homogeneous high school, you leave home for the Yard with visions of melting pots dancing in...
When jubilant banking lobbyists began shouting "We won! We won!" outside the hearing room, some Congressmen became angry. Giving more tax breaks to the already well-sheltered banking industry was no way to sell voters on tax reform. The amendment was repealed.
Charm, ingratiation and candid confession of past sins are also part of the persuasive skills of the title character in Mrs. Warren's Profession, a woman who has everything she wants except the respect of her newly adult daughter. Born in poverty but blessed with good looks and a raffish...