Word: epitheted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Echoes of the Epithet...
There's a term for your roommate and your friends in Ec 10 and Cabot. Echoes of the epithet can be heard across campus from lectures in Sanders Theater to Bio 2 in the Science Center to meetings of the Society of Nerds and Geeks (SONG) in Mather House. In slightly less than scientific terms, all of the above cases demonstrate the Anal Retentive at Harvard...
Leonid Fridman '92, president of SONG, says Fritschel and Finkelstein should be proud. In fact, he insists that he and his fellow nerds are labeled anal "only by our enemies." The epithet has derived from "pure envy by those orally fixated Harvard students," he says, explaining, "Anal people tend to succeed in life. Others are just envious. It's nothing else...
...talk these days among the Irish is of "fiddles." Not the kind that make music but the ones that make money. Fiddle is a coy Celtic epithet for the sort of financial finaglings plaguing the Irish republic even as scandalmongers have their eyes on Tokyo and Manhattan...
...HANDS of conservative critics, the epithet "PC" becomes an eraser, making liberal ideas nothing more than knee-jerk euphemisms and real-life problems nothing more than fictions...