Word: cluelessness
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...women completely clueless in business? You might think so, given the number of career-advice books being written by and for women. "My first reaction is that this is incredibly discriminatory," says Jackie Wilbur, the director of M.B.A. career development at the MIT Sloan School of Management. "But as you think about this more, of course women have very distinct issues. It could be a tremendous service to create career guides that talk them through the acculturation process into corporate America...
...This requisite patience in turn counsels against the fair-weather fandom that dominates the Harvard campus annually around October—that is, if the Red Sox have had a successful season. Well-intentioned and clueless Red Sox fans on campus perhaps can be forgiven for their feigned enthusiasm, for their understandable desire to imbibe the rich froth of Boston sports culture, for their all-too-human urge...
...moved to a new school district in the fourth grade. Sporting a fresh mushroom haircut, I was completely clueless about cannolis in a town that was 40 percent Italian-American. Naturally, I was one tacky Jessica McClintock gown and plastic tiara away from being prom queen...
...concentration problem,” Charlie is struck by an ingenious idea: create his own psychiatric practice in the stalls of the boys’ bathroom. The way in which he obtains the necessary drugs—memorizing textbook symptoms, then rattling them off to his clueless psychiatrist for a prescription—is as improbable as the advice he dispenses to his insecure classmates. This counseling includes the gem: “Sometimes people say things and mean something else.” As might be expected, Charlie soon becomes a kind of mythic school hero, much...
...wanted to give back,” Lin says, “and help other undergraduates who were in the same boat that I was just a couple of years before, which was completely clueless...