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Then I went to the Science Center. Perhaps the Crimson had been synthesized and held captive by some Chem 20 nerd who hated football games. Not a chance...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: In Search of Crimson | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

Certainly, critics could not have expected the quality of E.L. Doctorow's writing and the complexity of his novel's conception. His previous books. Welcome to Nerd Times and Big as Life, displayed his concern with ethical difficulties without giving indication of the novelist's ability to whip observations and emotions into an intellectually compelling, deeply felt, unified narrative, Critics who did praise Daniel applauded. Doctorow`s new found control and intensity, Still, even thought Stanley Kauffmann and Peter Prescott called it in the novel of the tear, the New Yorker didn't consider it at all, and any treatment...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: The Sins of Three Generations | 1/5/1973 | See Source »

...place places respectively. Dugger was timed at 55.1, Johnson at 55.3. Team captain Johnson had an outstanding day, scoring 11 points in anchoring the mile relay team to a victory in which he came up from behind to edge an Army run-Quirk pulled away at the beginning and nerd at the line...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Trackmen Glide To Upset of Army | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...language of personal insult flourishes. A zilch is a total loss, and so is a wimp, dimp, dipley nerdly, lizard, gink, barf, scuzz, skag, Jane, lunchbucket, or anyone whose mind is in the soil bank. At the University of North Carolina, last year's fink is this year's squid, cull, troll or nerd. The perennial rat fink is R.F. in Southern California and mouse fink or straight arrow (a combination pill and moral paragon) in the Harvard Yard. But though a tool in Florida is a dullard, a tool in the academic machinery of M.I.T. is merely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: The Slang Bag | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

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