Word: okay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people who fall the hardest are those who are most into being at the top. It's usually the people more in the middle who do okay, who fluorish and grow. Sooner or later, Paul Siemens will go through an experience at Harvard in which he will not be No. 1 and someone else will be. If he can't handle that concept, he'll be crushed, part of the flotsam and jetsam floating aimlessly around campus snarling at all they meet...
Paradoxically, the most important lesson that Harvard can teach you is that it's okay not to be "the best" that "the best" is not an easy concept to determine. In other words, that it's all right...
...Crimson reporter moved to take a picture of the school chapel, which was mysteriously locked shut, a woman stopped him. "I guess it's okay if you want to take a picture," she said. "But not of any of our clients...
That said, the awful story, nicely paced and well acted, meets its low aims. Keshishian negotiates his material skillfully in a clean break from "Truth or Dare." No one fellates anything in "With Honors," and that's okay. Now we know he is versatile enough to make feel-good movies...
...world. And that was the thing that came up the most in conversation, was what's it like being outside. The students I ran into wanted to get out. They were tired of being here. The novelty of being at Harvard, it was like all right, yeah, okay, so, next, been there, done that, let's move on. And that surprised me. It was good; there was no pretension about it. Everybody was sort of like well it took a lot of work to get in here now I can have a little bit more fun, freedom...