Word: socializer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel...The blockbuster, the apogee of any writing career--putting together words, glorious words and making a veritable film of prose. The novel has been a long-time coming, more than 20 years of flirting with fiction, taking the truth and transforming it into social fairy tales, but always publishing under the realistically lucid umbrella of fact. The result of years with a notebook out there in the jungles of real life, this novel--Bonfire of the Vanities--purports to lend everything a purpose and win the writer a one-way ticket through the annals of literary history. Tom Wolfe...
Before a packed Memorial Church, President Bok and Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner yesterday urged the Class of '88 to balance careers with social service...
...speech to the graduates, Bok said that in today's society there is a conflict between the desire for financial security and concern for social issues...
...reconcile social concerns with the desire to succeed in a highly competitive world?" Bok asked the audience...
...said the intention of attaining security before going on to help solve social problems--such as making a donation to charity--is not realistic. Unless people are concerned from the beginning of their careers with helping others, Bok said, they will never feel secure enough to shift their atten- tion to social matters or they will loseinterest by the time they have reached such apoint...