Word: thankless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tense, aloof, out-of-touch elitist from back East. In other words, he's trying to assume the role perfected in 1980 by Ronald Reagan (but without all that pesky ideology) while casting Al Gore as the pencil-neck child of the Establishment. During the 1980 G.O.P. primary, that thankless role was played (and this is what makes the whole thing so delicious) by W.'s father George Herbert Walker Bush. "That elitist label was so unfair," says George W.'s strategist, Karl Rove, who has to say that sort of thing or the Bushes will lash...
...this better than Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who is leaving his position as the intermediary between students and the College administration this year after more than 30 years in University Hall. It takes a rare kind of individual to succeed at what seems like an often thankless job, but Epps has excelled. Our dean has taken plenty of abuse over the last three decades--some of it from this page--but we hope that is not how he will remember his time at Harvard...
...would a guy so rich and famous run for the mostly thankless job of mayor? "I had always fought the System from outside," says Goodman, "and figured I'd take a shot at doing some good from inside." Goodman has lived 35 years in Las Vegas and has proved a tireless glad-hander during this campaign. He has led in the polls, including one published last Thursday, and is expected to win this week's primary, though not with a margin large enough to avoid a runoff vote in June...
...Beckert, who is active on history departmental committees, says that many of his junior Faculty colleagues avoid the boardroom. The thankless work of the committee simply doesn't help get tenure...
...very existence or staunchly fight for my rights to burn would run nonstop. Gradually, a cult following would be built around me. The members would sing songs of peace outside the Ad Board office as the people inside groaned and wished they had never volunteered for such a thankless position...