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Obsequiousness .... a most perspicacious observation

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in response to reader comment: Not "generosity", but rather obsequiousness

Submitted by Domenic Pepe (United States), Apr 13, 2013 at 23:58

Obsequiousness .... a most perspicacious observation ....

how fitting and how low the leadership of Yeshiva and Brandeis Universities have sunk.

Maybe Brandeis and Yeshiva need to brush up on some self-descriptive vocabulary as here provided:

apple-polisher sycophant ingratiating flatterer

ass kisser submissively deferential

bootlick abject servility and devotion.

brown-nose A fawning flatterer, an obsequious sycophant

curry favor To seek to ingratiate one-self with one's superiors by flattery or servile demeanor.

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