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Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Switzerland... he was thrown out of a lot of colleges.
— Bernstein · Citizen Kane
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker lists prestigious universities and then an entire country before explaining that someone was expelled from many colleges. What initially sounds like an impressive educational history becomes a record of repeated rejection. Including Switzerland among the institutions adds to the list's comic absurdity.
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