Word: distinguishable
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...interesting young people are in abundance in this country.” For better or worse (and it is debatable), many Harvard students have spent most of their brief lives convinced of their inherent academic superiority. But unless they graduate with the broad range of skills necessary to distinguish themselves from their highly talented peers at other institutions, adulthood will sadly be, just as Brooks said, “the land of anticlimaxes...
...After all, so what if he can’t tell that we’re superior to Penn State students, he’s probably just not very perceptive.”) A more worthwhile exercise, though, is to think of how Harvard students should want to distinguish themselves from their peers at other colleges. After all, stereotypical as it sounds, most Harvard students really are not satisfied with second best…or first equal. The challenge, it seems, is to define what students ought to get from their Harvard educations...
...only in the real world, but also on campus. As the admissions office never tires of repeating, Harvard every year turns down plenty of applicants sporting 1600s on the SAT. In so doing, the admissions office recognizes what is self-evident: If Harvard students are to distinguish themselves down the line, in the vast majority of cases it won’t be through their ability to do mental arithmetic...
...this raises the old question, How to distinguish between a movie star and a celebrity? Both are commodities, but one gets consumed in crowded movie theaters, the other in checkout lines. Right now Affleck is Type B. His romance with Lopez sold magazines and newspapers, says a prominent publicist, "but they are all the wrong magazines and newspapers, particularly for an actor who wants to be taken seriously." Another high-ranking flack says, "He's got to stay out of the tabs. This town is fickle. There's always the next Ben Affleck coming...
...summer a couple of decades ago, my distinguished colleague Richard Schickel bemoaned the lot of a film critic assigned to write about the seasonal pack of muscle-bound action pictures. ?It?s not that they?re bad movies,? he said. ?It?s that they?re the same bad movie.? Our job, essentially, was to make cutting witticisms - to distinguish not between apples and oranges but between rotten apples and rottener...