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Watt is an autocratic and cocksure man who is quick to show his impatience with poor performance. Wary colleagues sensed long ago not to swear in his presence. He neither smokes nor drinks-no coffee either. His unbending sense of propriety is so well known that, although Watt claims he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zealous Lord of a Vast Domain | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

So, as the end of the summer faded into September and I began to pack for school. I felt little regret over leaving my job behind. I daydreamed about tearful farewells between the tweed blazers and silky slit-skirts at the bank and wistfully vowed that next summer would be...

Author: By William F. Hammond, | Title: Folding Cardboard in the Back | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

It is Wednesday night, February 4, and McCreery has scheduled an "icebreaker" to precede Thursday and Friday's interviews. The young, second-year B-School's plush Hamilton lounge promptly at 5 p.m. to exchange social amenities with the men and women who will be valuating them for the next...

Author: By Geoffrey T. Gibbs, | Title: The Right Chemistry | 2/27/1981 | See Source »

Serfs Up! is the Hasty Pudding's 133rd theatrical production, and by now, you'd think, the fermented-in-bottle mixture of show music, puns, dancing and drag might be running a bit weak. But undergraduate talent tends to rise phoenix-like every few years, and if the shows run...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

You can't help wondering, though--as you watch a young man in drag dancing up a storm and then snapping a "Hi, mom," into the audience--how this relic of "gentlemanly" fun has survived, or why. Whatever the topical theme of each show, the jokes always return to that...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

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