Word: glamourizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When U.S. News and World Report again anointed Harvard number one in its annual survey of universities, it came as no surprise. But behind the glamour of being tops six years in a row was a less expected rating: Harvard placed only 17th in teaching quality...
...applying for the Glamour award, Johnson was required to obtain the nominating signatures of two deans and a professor...
Cynthia D. Johnson '96 has been named one of Glamour magazine's Top Ten College women for 1995 Johnson received a $1,000 award and is featured in the magazine's October issue...
...though Johnson secured the Glamour award based on these activities, one of the most important achievements of her college career occurred after she was already recognized...
...perkiness and primping, the look is small-town, polyester. This is Sears, not Saks. The women would be prettier with smarter clothes and hipper hairdos. A few display true glamour and grace, but in general this is a triumph of starch over sizzle. The earnestness with which the women sell themselves would make them comfy at a Mary Kay Cosmetics convention. They radiate not fantastic beauty but fanatical effort. For some, striving to be universally liked can trigger the scent of desperation. Horn says, "They are interviewing for a job--the job of Miss America," and the pressure shows...