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With that, the seeds of resentment, deep and abiding, were sown. By then, dozens of worthy researchers had been toiling far longer than Salk in the fields of polio and would have given their microscopes for such funding and freedom. Who was this hired gun who appeared from nowhere with a bankroll the size of a special prosecutor's, plus free use of all the backbreaking work that had gone before...
...fairness to Galton, he came to see the encouragement of "good" marriages as a better way to his eugenic heaven than discouraging or preventing "bad" ones. But the seed of a very dangerous notion had nevertheless been sown...
...though, readers do get the hint that at least one character has transcended the egocentric world, even as the seeds of the next chapter in Atlanta's power games are being sown. After getting through all 742 pages, one other fact remains clear: Tom Wolfe has done it again. A Man in Full is a thrilling read and an insightful (if not entirely original) vignette from one of the master chroniclers of the human condition...
What The Crimson fails to mention is that it was in the days of the legendary "Gold Coast" dormitories--luxurious buildings built to accommodate Harvard's wealthiest students--that the seeds of the Harvard House system were first sown. President A. Lawrence Lowell recognized that a great evil lurked in the rise of these private dorms; he dubbed them "an enemy to democracy." As early as 1913, Lowell authorized the construction of new freshman houses along the river. Students were eventually drawn away from the Gold Coast dorms...
Weld's unorthodox style was cast into sharprelief last summer, when President Clintonnominated Weld for the Mexican ambassadorship, anomination calculated to curry favor among Weld'sown moderate Republicans...