Word: conceitedness
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That courage sets Baker a little apart from the long and distinguished line of American newspaper humorists who preceded him, a line that is older than the nation itself. The first regular humor column in the New World appeared in Boston's New-England Courant in 1722 under the byline...
At times it may seem to you that Harvard is trying to turn you into a type, so that when you get out of here (although there are plenty that engage in this practice while they are here), you can walk around all puffed up and properly conceited. It may...
Pretty conceited, huh? The kind of thing Harvard fans would greet with chants of "BORING, BORING."
The serious thrusts at Leone and at Christian Democrats in general remain vague, unpointed. At the beginning of the story, "the execration index when it came to him (Leone) had risen to eighty-two per cent, as against thirteen per cent for those who hated him and five per cent...
The story is only superficially about pedagogy, however. It follows two Ohio high school teachers--George Groch, a sullen, conceited would-be poet, and his flighty and impressionable fiancee, Jessie Deagle--through six turbulent weeks here. They are both enrolled in an English class, Groch because he wants to come...