Word: genericism
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...director of the adult ADHD clinic at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Many adults respond to the diagnosis with relief -- a sense that "at last my problem has a name and it's not my fault." As more people are diagnosed, the use of Ritalin (or its generic equivalent, methylphenidate), the drug of choice for ADHD, has surged: prescriptions are up more than 390% in just four years...
...Harvard official--from Office of Career Services Director Martha P. Leape to those manning the registrar's office--could explain why Harvard doesn't administer the MCAT (or the GRE) When Harvard provides more test takers than any other school. The "best" generic response from Leape and others: "The Person who asked to administer the tests here is no alive." They said no one had stepped forward" to take the job. Hmmm...
...gift is really a way of communicating knowledge. A thoughtful present is a way of saying to someone you care about, "I know you." But a generic gift--even if it is a Corniche or a Faberge egg--says, "Aren't I great for getting you this...
...afraid I haven't been a very good Eliot House Secret Santa to you. Stifled by the intensely academic season and the economy of the Square, I gave generic presents--chocolate, pizza, a book...
...discovered that circa 1800 our antecedents in the Jewish pale went by Ben Reb Tzadik (Son of the Master Scholar). Apparently there was an earlier pedagogue in our crowd. For tax purposes or other bureaucratic reasons, the authorities in a few countries around 1810 ordered Jews to give up generic Hebrew titles. Like all Diaspora Jews over the centuries, the first Baratz did what seemed necessary to adapt, adding vowels to the B, R and Tz of Ben Reb Tzadik to produce Baratz. So Harold Baratz, in his own way, adapted. But he lived long enough to understand that...