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...believes they're acting. As Archie Bunker, the beseiged blue-collar bigot and patriarch of "All in the Family," Carroll O'Connor became his character so completely and physically that it was impossible to imagine him as a separate person. It wasn't just his New York-y delivery - those "youses" and "terlets" - but the way he carried himself: the tousled hair, the bone-weary shamble, the plaintive Irish eyes rolling heavenward at the dingbats and pinkos who surrounded him in his own house...
Bush, by comparison, has a resume that conforms with every pre-1970s ideal of what real men really do. He was a rebel against his father--but eventually became the most dutiful son. He boozed and pranked his way through college. He went to a y-chromosome graduate school--in business, natch. He then dabbled in oil and baseball. He speaks the language of sports players and frat boys: inarticulate, abrupt and mostly a mix of self-deprecation and merciless teasing of others. Hence the nicknames for colleagues and journalists. Could anything get more guyish...
...aisle in the supermarket, alongside dairy, paper products and pet supplies. Clearly, some female shoppers respond to food designed with their nutritional needs in mind. But do they really need to buy special oatmeal just because they were born with an extra X chromosome instead of a Y? "Somehow as a gender we've done fine for thousands of years without our own breakfast cereal," says Alice Lichtenstein, a professor of nutrition at Tufts University...
...Square is becoming more tourist-y and less college-y,” says Phillip M. Chan...
...committee headed out into the field again as the list winnowed. They spoke with other faculty at institutions where possible candidates worked, and then, eventually, Goodheart’s office called directly, asking whether Mr. X or Ms. Y would be interested in discussing Harvard University and its future. Again, two or three members, and sometimes even four for the more serious candidates, would arrive at an interviewee’s office to talk about Harvard. They would ask the same questions asked at the beginning of the search: How is Harvard perceived? What does it need? Where is higher...