Original sentence: While completing graduate work at Harvard in 1988, Sullivan published an attack in Spy magazine on Rhodes Scholars, "All Rhodes Lead Nowhere in Particular," which dismissed recipients of the scholarship as "hustling apple-polisher[s]", "high-profile losers", "the very best of the second-rate" and "misfits by the very virtue of their bland, eugenic perfection
Edited sentence: While completing graduate work at Harvard in 1988, Sullivan published a vitriolic attack in Spy magazine on Rhodes Scholars, "All Rhodes Lead Nowhere in Particular," which dismissed recipients of the scholarship as "hustling apple-polisher[s]", "high-profile losers", "the very best of the second-rate" and "misfits by the very virtue of their bland, eugenic perfection