Ernest was a mediocre professor in a mediocre university, earning a small salary.
In "The Ask," Milo Burke is a development officer at what he calls "Mediocre university".
By Sally Benson The New Yorker, February 8 , 1936P. 18 Ernest was a mediocre professor in a mediocre university, earning a small salary.
However, Milo is soon brought back to "Mediocre University at New York City" because they have an "ask" for him.
Within a few pages of the start of the book, Milo has lost his cruddy job in "the development office of a mediocre university in New York City".
By Thessaly La Force April 7, 2010 In "The Ask," Milo Burke is a development officer at what he calls "Mediocre university".
In Lipsyte's third novel, Milo Burke, a failed artist, works in the development office of a mediocre university in New York to support his resentful wife and preschool-age son.
A recently fired development officer at a mediocre university, Milo is offered a chance to win his job back if he can solicit a major donation -- an "ask" -- from an old college friend who's now a Machiavellian tech millionaire.
In one of his stories, a… In February, Michael Specter gave a talk at TED, which can now be seen online, on the subject of denialism, and how irrational thinking hurts… In "The Ask," Milo Burke is a development officer at what he calls "Mediocre university".
After her mediocre university career, in which she deliberately failed to gain access to a more prestigious institution in an act of self-sabotage aimed at her mother, the protagonist goes to work as personal assistant to the pop star Aimee.
