Word: jockish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being sucked deeper and deeper into the Crimson whirlpool, I realized that I had simply escaped from one homogeneous group and entered another. As my rooming group was Irish and jockish, the Crimson was Jewish, New York, and too serious. My Harvard changed from Andover cornheads, to Irish jocks, to Jewish editors. It seemed that there was no escape from homogeneous groups, and I feared that I would not fit into any one of them...
Smith, who hails from New Castle, Delaware, grew up in a basketball family. "We're a pretty jockish bunch," she says, laughingly recalling her little brother: "He thinks he's this great basketball player--Olympic material. He spends all day practicing his 'moves' up in his room...