Word: successful
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...Film and Anthropology," in the company of a few dozen of his classmates. On the other hand, last Sunday he was in Carnegie Hall, playing in a Brahms sextet before an audience of two thousand. Because Yo Yo already plays the cello better than almost anyone in the world, success is not going to bother him with struggling up through the ranks, trying out for free-lance jobs, or any of that. Martha Babcock '72 and Ronan Lefkowitz '75 are successes in their own right, having leapt from Harvard into the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but Yo Yo is beyond that...
...some ways, Yo Yo's success is tangential to the real core of things here--it's hard to imagine, for example, that anything he writes in his Film and Anthropology blue book will much matter to him. That seems to be true of many people who find instant success outside Harvard's portals. Shep Messing may be an extreme example. By senior year, Shep says, he was arriving at Harvard every Monday and taking off again Thursday for a soccer game in Paris or Mexico. The summer after he graduated, he played in the Olympics, and, not long after...
Andrew Tobias, too, sees his present success in just being able to relax a bit. Not long ago he was "a very ambitious, aggressive, high-strung Harvard graduate," a former president of Harvard Student Agencies and a co-founder of a company that was expanding like a supernova. Before Tobias could blink, he had $400,000 worth of stock options. And when the bubble inevitably burst, reducing his paper holdings to nothing, he was standing back, watching the whole thing from a healthy distance, slightly cynical and slightly wise. Naturally, he wrote a book about...
Last Friday, Tobias was out in California working on an article about two film companies for New York magazine, where he is a contributing editor. Now that he is more relaxed, he has found the success that eluded him during the student marketing days. "I don't have any money, although I have anything I want: I have my nice little Toyota, take vacations, I could take anybody to dinner, I could fly to Europe tomorrow if I wanted...
...owns the most valuable coin in the world and employs his father as a vice-president. The three Lampoon editors who turned their Harvard activity into a national magazine and made their first millions at age 23. These people may have found a private harmony to match their public success, and they may not have--but there...