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Harvard's hide-bound tenure system prevents Afro-am from adequately filling its professorial ranks or adequately serving its students...
...into an ominous reality for the boy. Strangers try to abduct him. His mother's small inheritance is wiped out through bad investments, all recommended by an attorney who is supposed to protect her anonymity and interests. The two of them are forced to flee from their village and hide in the capaciousness of the capital: "Long before I saw London I smelt it in the bitter smoke of sea-coal that began to prickle my nostrils and the back of my throat, and then I saw the dark cloud on the horizon that grew and grew and that...
...does not quite capture the reality. Howard Hughes was reclusive; so are J.D. Salinger and Greta Garbo. These people achieved fabled recognitions and then decided to barricade themselves against a public that knew where they were and what they looked like. Pynchon, by contrast, somehow had the foresight to hide from the beginning; the only photographs of him in circulation date from his late adolescence. As a result, he resembles, in his freedom, an apparition he includes in Vineland, namely " 'Chuck,' the world's most invisible robot," an android that operates on an erratic airline between Los Angeles and Honolulu...
...four professors are going to haveto eventually answer our questions about theirrole in discriminatory hiring," Gulbis added. "Wewant to know what they are trying to hide...
Olson doesn't hide his blue-collar prejudices against academics and others. "At least our bigotry is open and honest and worn out front like a tattoo," he proclaims...