Word: summa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if a clear and authentic last testament by Hughes is found, a gigantic scramble for the remaining money seems certain to break out anyway. That fight, which could have incalculable consequences, would pit Hughes' long-estranged, patrician Houston relatives against a triumvirate of insiders at Hughes' Summa Corp., the umbrella company formed in 1972 to oversee his vast holdings...
...THIS is not as straightforward and moralistic as it sounds, mostly because Sokolov spends so much energy--maybe too much energy--being witty, in increasingly abstruse ways. At first, the humor of Native Intelligence is a sharp and satirical joy. Sokolov, like his hero Harvard '63, summa cum laude, understands exactly the kind of mind he is writing about, and he portrays intelligence intelligently and with unerring accuracy. All of Alan's foibles--his detachment, his slight scorn for everyone else, his obsessive discovery of sex, in the way he dresses--ring absolutely true. His, and Sokolov's, mind...
...vote on Heimert's amendment were close--it came in two parts, one for the summa and the other for the rest, and each section passed by less than five votes. But no one even asked the members of the Administrative Board or the Faculty Council why they had voted unanimously against it in earlier straw votes, nor did the Faculty discuss sophomores already enrolled in honors programs...
...member proposed an amendment that had been voted down at an earlier meeting; another suggested changing a clause granting summa candidates some leeway in their freshman year--a clause that has always been part of the honors rules...
...there is some consolation for anyone who feels deprived of a chance for a summa. Many Faculty members who voted to change the standards would not, under the current legislation, be holding the summas they treasure...