Apple Polishing 1100 Words
Apple Polishing 1100 Words
seeking someone’s favor by flattery or gifts, ass-kissing, backscratching, brown-nosing, cringing, fawning, groveling, handshaking, ingratiation, insinuation, obeisance, obsequiousness, parasitism, prostration, sponging, sycophancy, timeserving, toadying, toadyism, truckling
“If apple polishing the shrewd professor has got you where you are today, how much more simple to apple polish a young innocent into leading you to the altar — the getting of a husband should be mere child’s play.”
These are the words that Danish Kapstein ’26 PhD’31, an English professor at Brown, addressed to the students of Pembroke College in May 1939. The occasion was his election as favorite professor by the Pembroke student body, and the Evening Bulletin reported that he was honored by being married to the entire senior class in a mock ceremony. Indeed, the picture accompanying the article shows a broadly smiling Kapstein in a suit, followed by a host of equally elated young women in veils. The wedding seems an appropriate award, as the article reports that Kapstein “advocated marriage rather than a career” as the appropriate next step for young women in his commencement speech that same day.
Source: https://www.browndailyherald.com/
Noun: apple polisher
Verb: apple polish
Farsi: تملق، چاپلوسی، پاچه خواری
