Word: tub
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...surplus is for Harvard as a whole. Since the early nineteenth century, the University has operated on the principle that over time each of its faculties and other departments should by and large finance themselves. "Every tub on its own bottom," or ETOB, in financial lingo...
...have seen Joe Namath with Raquel Welch, on the football field, and good heavens, even in the tub . . . but he looked most relaxed doing what kiddies like to do most-blowing bubbles. ROBIN CHOATE Colorado Springs, Colo...
What can be said for the budgetary principle of Every Tub on Its Own Bottom is that it works and that it would be very hard to change. Choice between incommensurable enterprises (accounting and ethics) remain implicit and hence are resolved with a minimum of conflict and pain to the community. --Harvard and Money: A Memorandum on Issues and Choices...
Gielgud with straw hat and cigar plays Sissal as a lickerish hybrid of Winston Churchill and Malcolm Muggeridge. Cackling over the edge of a tub in which the Emperor is playing a nude scene, he tells Napoleon: "Talleyrand once told me you had four women in one night." This indeed is the stuff of history...
...kind of art he likes: he hopes it will preserve vital distinctions in human consciousness. If it is a claim less grandiose than that of Kael or Simon, he applies it to more different kinds of subject matter. Second, he has what it takes to know when to tub-thump hard, and when to leave well enough alone. It's called "Balance". Third, he's a better writer than even the smoothest of the slick mags' stable. His style is extremely personal: mostly wryly clever, but sometimes almost lyrical. And it moves as cleanly as a well-oiled trip-lock...