Word: impress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drinking and palling around with buddies and getting into fights for no other reason than boredom. Is it a surprise then to find out that Will is also a secret genius? He quotes ancient property laws to get out of arraignments, rattles off knowledge of historiography in order to impress girls and even finishes brain-numbing equations left on the school blackboards...
...denied that Clarkson is not the team it was nine months ago. The loss of Hobey Baker finalist Todd White tore an extensive hole in the Golden Knight attack, and early season losses to Yale and Princeton did little to impress the skeptics. On paper that put Harvard in perfect position to dispose of the home team and extend its series lead...
...attracted to this quiet Midwestern boy? And why does she suddenly say yes, after so many enthusiastic no's? After reading the sweetly sentimental poem John wrote for their wedding, Alida falls into his arms, and he realizes "why men have written poems all these centuries--it is to impress a woman in hopes that she will sleep with you." It is as if Alida has suddenly thrown away her previous desires to live life fully as a single person, and has suddenly subscribed to John's almost sexist ideals that beautiful young women are one of the great pleasures...
Paul Frohock '79 is the ambitious writer-actor-director who tries to mold Forbidden Fruits into a cogent plea for environmental sanity. The play lacks the credibility, acting, and surprise, however, that it needs to impress the polluting zealot with the gravity and foolishness of his actions. Polluting zealots aside, the play never seems to establish a rapport with its audience, leaving Forbidden Fruii up on the stage, away from the audience, a simple dialogue between some actors...
...want to have an influence on them--impress is not really the word," Lewis says. "We want to familiarize them with how beautiful and wonderful [Harvard...