Word: hotshots
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...then one day I had what we hotshot English majors call an “epiphany.” Don’t we all live in a bubble? Isn’t that what Descartes meant by cogito, ergo sum? And didn’t the poet John Donne say that every man is a bubble unto himself? What makes one bubble more privileged than another...
...Duluth boasts the nation’s deepest and most talented goaltending corps with senior Riita Schaublin and freshman Kim Martin, the young hotshot responsible for Sweden’s stunning elimination of the U.S. in the semifinals of the Olympic tournament back in February and the shutout of the Badgers this weekend...
...versus ‘Oh my god, you’re going to Hell,’” Lam said. An audience member, Paul G. Hamm ’07, said that he appreciated the student-centric nature of the debate. “There were no hotshot names here, and it was great to hear what students actually had to say,” Hamm said...
...themselves that a Hist and Lit degree provides caché, though the harsh reality is that those outside Harvard’s fold will just assume that you majored in History and minored in Lit.At least while you’re at Harvard you’ll be a hotshot, though—the department is all about academia, meaning that your professors will take you and any harebrained idea you have seriously. They’ll also throw their backs out to help you win money for research, recognize you for your accomplishments, and pull you out of Widener?...
...gives them rides home on his motorcycle, and the classroom cut-ups reenact entire scenes from Dark Victory and know all the words to Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. Oh, please. The play's central conflict, and claim to seriousness, lies in the rivalry between the old teacher and a hotshot newcomer who cracks the whip to prepare the boys for their exams to get into Oxford and Cambridge. Trouble was, I found the new guy's classes more stimulating. And he kept his hands to himself...