Word: fide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...standardized test scores discourage me from applying to places like Harvard," says Sunik Divakaruni of Baltimore, Maryland. He says he's asked the bona-fide Harvard students he's encountered about their scores--"what range it's in, what they...
...today's corporate entertainment world, bona fide "cult" status gets harder and harder to come by. Cult bands, movies and books, after all, are supposed to be cool because their cynical disaffected tone alienates all but the most worldly consumers. But nowadays "cult" is just another category in a big schlocky pop culture market. Blockbuster video has a cult movie section, and HMV has an alternative music bin; now you can buy your Suicidal Tendencies album in the same spic and span shop where your grandmother picks up the new Amy Grant CD. It's just no fun being subversive...
...imagine there's a prefrosh anywhere who dreams about living in Greenough, Hurlbut or Pennypacker. Along with places like New Quincy and the Jordon Coops, these dorms have been relegated to a sort of Ivy League purgatory--they're bona fide, but some of their prestige got lost along the way. You'll never see a Union dorm on an admissions tour or in a promotional booklet. They represent the underside of a preppie heaven, where bedroom vistas incorporate the band headquarters, a cafeteria delivery zone and old rusty dumpsters...
Revere Beach, on the other side of Boston, is nearly at the end of the T's blue line, right before the Wonderland racetrack stop. Revere tries harder to be a bona fide beach. The sand is whiter, the beach stretches further, and the ocean stretches outward...
Even though he came to Harvard bona fide rugby star, with the experience and talent few 17 year-olds possess, Soren Oberg realized that he would likely have to wait a few years before making the A-Side rugby team...