Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visualized winning this 1000 times," varsity heavyweight stroke John Amory said. "I imagined feeling happy, but it doesn't come close to how I feel...
...before, he is rigorously informative about the hard, occasionally grotesque labors that disproportionate passions demand of their victims. If you thought you learned more than you needed to know about the creation of the perfect noodle soup in Tampopo, you may now feel you are finding out more than you require about tax law and outlawry in contemporary Japan. But arcana have their own peculiar charms -- and their special usefulness in Itami's larger design. When his single-minded characters are thwarted in the pursuit of their hearts' odd desires, they have a tendency to burst into sudden, angry flame...
...snootsie private institution where rich white people send their kids to school." (In fact, 33.5% of the current freshman class is black, Chicano, American Indian or Asian American -- more than three times the average at other major private universities.) Even from within the Stanford community, there are those who feel that the place is perhaps a little "too California," as one faculty member puts it. Senior Andrew Patzman points to an intellectual schizophrenia: "There is a certain pressure to be relaxed and to make your work appear effortless...
Such comments go to the heart of the question of what Stanford really is or should be. Some observers feel that it lacks the basic sense of identity that marks the older universities of the East. "I don't know what it stands for," says the president of an elite Eastern university. Adds Berkeley's Smelser: "Stanford is an institution in search of an image. They are forever looking over their shoulders at Harvard and Berkeley...
Sassy has tackled such topics as losing one's virginity ("If you don't feel like you can talk to your partner, then it's probably time to reconsider"), how to kiss (not too wet or too wide, and never with flavored lip-gloss) and the "Truth About Boys' Bodies" ("the average amount of semen per ejaculation is one-quarter of an ounce"). Sandwiched between the glossy but no-nonsense fashion pages and gushing paeans to the latest teen idols is at least one hard-hitting article, like the story of a teen whose best friend died of AIDS...