Word: veblenism
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...report, compiled by Nienke C. Grossman '99 and Mark F. Veblen '99 as their final project for Statistics 100, gives a breakdown of the student body by race and concentration in each of the 12 houses and for the incoming sophomores...
Grossman and Veblen researched their project by examining facebooks and assigning students to three racial categories: white, black and Asian American. The study divides concentrators into three categories: social sciences, humanities and hard sciences...
...Poetry." But the artfart never misses an opportunity to mention how hard he or she is working, and what difficult, pressing work it is. Although most members of this species subscribe to near-socialistic liberalism, that doesn't stop them from leading a lifestyle prodigal enough to make Thorstein Veblen blush...
...earned a law degree from Yale. Despite * his decade of teaching at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Reich is not a tenured professor; nor, friends say, has he sought that title. With characteristic wit, he pens some of his correspondence under a letterhead proclaiming himself the "Thorstein Veblen Wizard of Political Economy." To the criticism that few of the insights in his books are original, friends say Reich considers synthesis as important as discovery. As he once wrote in another context, "Often, greater rewards flow to quick and clever followers than to brilliant and original inventors...
...stare through his steel- rimmed spectacles, though sometimes it is necessary to bark a few brusque commands in order to send it scurrying. India, on the other hand, has a more coquettish relationship with it: she takes painting classes, flirts momentarily with divorce, psychoanalysis and the ideas of Thorstein Veblen. But whether the Bridges are confronting a tornado that Walter refuses to let interrupt dinner, their children's romantic and sexual hubbubs, a friend's suicide or simply the long silences of their own relationship, there is never any question about who is in charge around here...