Word: weinreb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people in the hall-others say he is simply shy. "When Derek and Sissela walk into a party," says one friend, "you've got to ply them away from the people they know." Bok is not sensitive about his private affairs, says Lloyd E. Weinreb, a professor of Law and close friend of the president, "so much as he is a genuinely private person...
Underneath the dignified and suited exterior, however, lurks a man who some say has a quick sense of humor. Bok does not enjoy standing on a platform of dignity, says Weinreb. "We have a very good time together because we can clown around," he adds. And Bok is well known in Massachusetts Hall for joking around. Steiner sees something deeper. "He has an ability to step back from a situation and laugh at the position he finds himself in," Steiner notes. Perhaps that sense of humor is what prompted Bok, in a beige three-piece suit and surrounded...