Word: neatness
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...authors set out to write a congressional cousin to to Theodore H. White's Making of the President books. What they would up writing was a long news story. It's a good story, if a bit dull and academic, with neat tables of poll data and primary election results. It will provide nice raw information some day for Government these by the babies that Jim Roosevelt kissed...
...REMEMBER, it is important to loudly feign intellectual ecstasy at moments when the rest of the class is patiently hearing the teacher out. For instance, one should cry 'oh, wow' or 'hey, how neat' at least every 10 minutes...
...what the professor said in lecture the other day...let me just check my extensive notes here (shuffles a tome of blank notebook paper cleverly disguised with a page of notes on top and bottom)...ah, yes, here it is...what this reminds me of is just how neat all the information seems to fit together! This is really a very cohesive course...
Business seminars also offer a chance to kibitz with outsiders. "What's neat," says an Indiana man, "is you're not competing, so you don't mind exchanging ideas. I'm in explosives, and he's making mattresses for hotels. So you don't worry about trade secrets as such...
...open my book and sequentially view the symbols that have been conveniently printed in nice little straight lines. After a few minutes, I usually realize that these symbols are designed to communicate ideas of some sort. How neat, I think. This scholarly revelation is the first step toward disaster--within seconds the "Happiness Principle" will take full control...