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...more important than a resume, Coles, even now, professes that the traditional trappings of isolated academia are stifling. For Coles, his life and his work examining children and culture depends not on abstract theory inside the Ivory Tower, but the stories of ordinary people struggling with their circumstances...
Berkeley says that during negotiations, Harvard had already altered their plans, making what he describes as "token gestures," cutting the tower down from 22 to 21 stories and enlarging the entrance on the Allston side. But the changes were not sufficient for Allston residents, and Berkeley says the mayor made the right decision by stepping...
...University has receded to the shadows of ivy tower and Ivy League obscurity, the only position, in the final analysis, that makes Rudenstine comfortable...
...these forces are liberating. Blue-collar robots took the grunt work out of factory and warehouse and dockside. The same will happen to white-collar work. Just as workin' the line at U.S. Steel was no walk in the park in 1946, passing papers in the tower is no great joy. My dad did it for 41 years at the Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. He was, sad to say, a white-collar indentured servant...
...supposition. Each influences the others multiplicatively. Therefore my unwillingness to back off my predictions about the power of the white-collar tsunami bearing down on us. Unsettling madness is afoot. Especially if I'm a 48-year-old white-collar staff member or middle manager entombed in a corporate tower in Manhattan or Miami or Milan...