Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many Harvard students are intrigued by classmates who insist on breaking into worthwhile discussion in order to excitedly point out the most unarguable, obvious aspects of the subject. Furthermore, there is general confusion on why a large group of Harvard undergraduates tend to reflect on their own accomplishments with the same reverence that is normally reserved for octogenarians remembering the "good old days...
...course, all rhetorical questions should be quickly responded to before the speaker has time to continue. For instance, if the teacher says '...one must wonder just what is the nature of art and its relationship to life?...' You must quickly jump to action with some obvious truism such as, 'Well, isn't art, in a way, an imitation of life? I mean in a sense isn't it true that in a symbolic sense we can see ourselves in art? You can continue in this vain until someone threatens...
Bubble Text: Perfect! Now I can allude to my illustrious past and impress everyone while still saying things obvious and irrelevant...
...obvious problems with the national economy is the decline in our manufacturing industries; maybe the "best and brightest" at Harvard could provide solutions. Yet only four manufacturing firms made their way into Memorial Hall Friday. Why? Where were the industrial giants? Do they not want our liberal arts education? Are they not hiring? Or did we not invite them? What about smaller entrepreneurial-type firms? Must we all be channelled into certain companies...
Just as important as efficiency for American industry is quality. The most obvious improvement has been in Detroit, where automakers were shamed in the 1970s by their products' poor performance. Today in the Hewlett Packard parking lot in California's Silicon Valley, where not long ago a U.S.-made car was a rare find, the sun shimmers off the sleek bodies of hundreds of Ford Taurus sedans. The electronics company was so impressed with the style and solidness of the autos that it bought a fleet of 8,000 for staffers to drive...