Word: maximalism
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...jumble of sophomoric humor and wet dreams waiting to happen that is Maxim magazine, Vicki Chou ’02 sees something more. Sitting in her creatively disordered Quincy bedroom surrounded by more than 50 issues of the men’s magazine, Chou still becomes visibly giddy when discussing her 103-page social studies thesis about the millennial cultural touchstone...
...They say that the most important part of our education takes place outside of the classroom, and my unexpected fondness for the man who sings “Friends in Low Places” and “Thunder Rolls” is living, fiddling proof of that maxim. True, it hasn’t been easy to overcome my anti-Garth bigotry; indeed, the first time my freshman year roommate blasted “Rodeo” (It’s bulls and blood / it’s dust and mud / it’s the roar...
...falutin’ faculty have put you in the New York Times, Time and Newsweek, a.k.a., the “CBS crowd.” Had you purchased the Red Sox, imagine what type of p.r. you’d have then! The cover of Sports Illustrated! ESPN.com! Even Maxim would have written about you—minus the nine-page photo spread...
Ever hear the maxim that you can’t squeeze blood from a turnip? Some people are emotional turnips: fine for a hook-up, but nothing more to give beyond that. Don’t squeeze them...
...hurry down to New Haven in order to deliver his testimony, but if he had crossed over from his offices on Oxford Street and paused a moment to look up at the inscription above Langdell Library, he surely would have reconsidered his misguided journey. Etched into the stone, the maxim of Harvard Law School reads “Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege”—“not under man but under God and law.” The notion that all people are equal before the law is a bedrock...