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Unfortunately, the line between being quick and being sharp is a fine one. Knee-jerk wit beats a certain resemblance to a handgun in the possession of a child--you don't know whether it will go off, and you don't know who it may hit. Knee-jerk wit may go a long way toward explaining our reputation for arrogance. The image of the stuck in Harvard student has always bothered like too many of my colleagues to understand how we have managed to maintain this distressing image...
...call for sympathy. I rankly, I've been stuttering for a long time, and I'm used to it. Harvard students are not the only people who respond in this fashion. People are usually confused when confronted by my difficulty, as they would be by any unusual situation. Knee-jerk wit is a common reaction; however, the results of my unscientific survey reveal that more Harvard students react this way than do a random sample of those not blessed with Centers phones...
...that he has disgorged all the animus, entertains second thoughts. "Maybe I shouldn't have written a couple of those things," Iacocca concedes. Yet another time, he could not contain his old angers as he defended his view that people are divided into two camps--"nice guys" and jerks (his own term is far earthier). "I know, I know," he said to the suggestion that life is not that simple. "But if a guy is over 25% jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95%." Finally, many Ford executives bristle at Iacocca's implication in the book that...
...There's Gretzky,' it just doesn't feel right." After practice, shuttling teammates require his signature on posters and sticks for causes of their own. "But there's already a signature printed on it," he complains. "Yeah, but that's a phony, just like you. Sign it, you little jerk." They laugh brightly...
...cared about was making sure that Ken took me to the prom? Well, those baby-doll days are part of the unliberated past. Today's Day-to-Night Barbie is 26 and equally at ease in the executive suite or at the disco. We're not talking about knee-jerk feminism here, ladies, and I do think it would be unfair to say, "Barbie goes yuppie." But I now have my own workout center, computer-equipped work station and attache case, complete with calculator, business cards and newsmagazine. Projecting our femininity is still just as important as ever. That...