Word: overly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Davis does say she suspects more students suffer from bulimia than anorexia because the protoype of an intelligent, demanding, well-off and attractive over-achiever fits many Harvard undergraduates.
"Bend over! Touch your toes! Good! Again! Good! Again! Yes! Fantastic!" The ever-smiling aerobics instructor, who I shall call Satan, brims with enthusiasm to the point of hysteria. If she spoke this way on the street, she would be arrested for inciting a riot.
And when she told us to do something different with our arms--such as "dislocate you shoulder! two! three! four!"--I would lose control over my legs and go crashing into the wall.
Herein lies the true danger of aerobics. Society can withstand the few injured bodies and broken souls of status-seeking aerobisizers. But what happens when instructors utilize the mental power they exert over Harvard students, particularly during the left leg kicks" Will they take over the world?
Why shouldn't the oldest and most widely recognized American university begin drawing on the enormous prestige it has accumulated over the past three-and-a-half centuries and forge collaborative agreements with major foreign universities? Believe it or not, there are many foreign institutions whose level of instruction measure...