Word: cynically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...administration's underhandedness has put such a bitter taste in my mouth that I wonder if they shouldn't award an anti-Ford Foundation Grant to discourage undergraduates from entering academia. Various deans and committees have turned me from an eager potential scholar into a disillusioned cynic in just one year. Is this the Harvard legacy the administrators want to leave me? I hope they think about this at night when they're trying to go to sleep. I know I do. Ron Fein...
...your first section you also learn the rudiments of cynic-speak. Thinkers don't have ideas--they have "notions." Notions are safe and don't aspire to significance. "Freud's notion that people have primal notions is an interesting notion...
...cynic would argue that this is proof that money is more important than democracy; an idealist that we simply value voting too much to let it denigrate into another keyboard command on the computer; a realist would say Americans are simply technological morons...
...delightful part about sophomore life is having absolutely no idea where or with whom you will live. In the spring, dear Harvard gives us the privilege of making some suggestions on these issues. But after my first year here, I became a hardened cynic about my likely fate...
...course, as a member of the Beavis Generation, Peter isn't dumb and his mind isn't numbed. Like most other American children his age, he's just a cynic. So are most of his classmates at the local high school. About half of local high schoolers religiously follow the show, Peter says...