Word: fitting
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...self-perpetuating. Have you ever noticed how few dumb people are on campus? This is not just because they aren't accepted, but because they don't even bother to try to come here. They know that they wouldn't make the grade, they know they wouldn't fit in. And when dumb people do come here, we generously instruct them. The smartest Harvard students and professors rally to the cause. With clever phrases and melodious hymns we gracefully expose their abysmal dumbness and assert our intellectual primacy. In this way either we gently persuade them and borderline students into...
...anything smart to say, one shouldn't come to Harvard. Old Cap Weinberger didn't realize this and we had to resort to ketchup to drown him out. And that Contra-guy, (what was his name?) it took him two visits here before he understood that he didn't fit in. Boy was he dumb! Thank goodness more people are getting the message these days. Pretty soon we won't have to be bothered with any of their dumb ideas at all, at least not here. We'll be one big happy homogeneous institution of smart people which will make...
Harvard Law Professor Hal Scott, a friend of Ginsburg's since high school, says the new nominee is a social conservative, though not in the Bork mold. "The difference is Bork is a conceptualist," says Scott. "He has a theory, and the issue is how to fit the case into the theory. Doug comes at things case by case." With Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, Scott says, "everyone will get a fair shake...
Although he looked older than the other kids, he tried to fit in by wearing punk T shirts. There was something oddly out of place about George Moore, the new addition to the senior class at Midlothian High, 30 miles outside Dallas. Last week all of Midlothian (pop. 7,500) learned Moore's secret: he was really George Raffield Jr., 21, a rookie officer working undercover for the local police department to ferret out drug use among the 765 students. On Oct. 24 his body was discovered in a clump of cedar trees near town, a .38-cal. bullet hole...
...school, Raffield quickly aroused suspicion. "When someone tries so hard to fit in fast, you know something is wrong," said a teenager familiar with the scene. Raffield obviously was not a typical student. For one thing, ( the school assigned him three lunch periods. Some students called him "21 Jump Street," after the TV show about undercover cops on the high school beat...