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...Nonsense Tightwad. Oddly, this figure has assumed the most traditional American role. He is the Jew become Yankee Trader?prudent, frugal, resourceful, strict; in Koch's case, ascetic to boot. On his shoulders lies the mantle of New England Protestantism, the mantle scorned and defiled by bona fide Protestants like former Mayor John Lindsay, and now handed over to the latest pioneers...
Usually it is prudent to keep a little on guard when talking about the figurative batterings of childhood. In Jeffreys' case, though, that turmoil seems to lie at the core of his music. Certainly it is what turned him to music in the first place. He remembers his mother playing Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday and the Mills Brothers, and he remembers, too, singing along with those old 78s by the time he was four. As he got older, he started listening to rhythm and blues: Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson and, most of all, Frankie Lymon, whose high...
Cabot says that terms like "conservative" and "aggressive" are bandied about loosely; he seems to favor the word "prudent," explaining that because of the importance of investments earnings to the University's income, Harvard will always operate using prudent investment strategies. But Cabot is quick to recall the long-term picture: "We won't be able to accomplish for Harvard what we want to in the long term if we are conservative, I don't think we're stodgy investors. We're aggressive with some degree of prudence...
...plan "enables and encourages them to pay a higher price. This creates an inflationary spiral and sets a standard for property values in each neighborhood." Harvard officials, such as O'Brien, deny that the option plan has a "significant" effect on the Cambridge housing market. "Our faculty is as prudent a buyer as anyone else," O'Brien says...
Tracing the Great Helmsman's decline, Huang explains: "In his later years, he ceased to be prudent. He had little direct contact with the day-to-day life of the masses, and his democratic style suffered." Injecting some bitter personal memories, Huang recalls that "as far back as 1958, I had already found that his brain was overly concentrated. The cerebral tension caused him to make mistakes. He had great, lofty aspirations and hoped to accomplish things in a few years that may take several hundred years...