Word: phi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impress with footnotes in the original Sanskrit. Neither a bullshit artist, a workaholic, nor a genius, the soul in this circle sees his papers and exams as an endless string of B-plusses, while the operators one floor up in GPA heaven thumb their noses and jangle their Phi Beta Kappa keys at the brighter minds below...
...Brandeis and author of two well-received books, Lying and Secrets, normally accompanies him on such expeditions but had to go to Sweden to visit her ailing father, the famous sociologist Gunnar Myrdal.) Bok has always been an athletic sort of academician. A basketball star as well as a Phi Beta Kappa at Stanford, he continued to play in Cambridge as head of a campus team called "Bok's Jocks." One day six years ago, he sank a running left-handed hook shot and decided that was the moment to retire forever. He still plays a sharp game of tennis...
...love affair having developed out of their high-velocity work on The Terminator. And, in fact, they do not have much in common in their backgrounds. The daughter of a well-to-do private investor, she was raised mainly in Palm Springs, Calif. A confessed academic overachiever, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford. He was born in Canada, the son of an electrical engineer, and ended up in Brea, Calif., where he spent five semesters at local colleges, dropping out and eventually drifting into Corman's orbit. As adolescents, she was a reader, while he was a drawer, often...
...about four Asians went to a high school dance at the convention center, thinking it was open to the public. The police came and sent them away. A few nights later a group of teenagers headed over to the Asians' motel, and a scuffle broke out. Dan Phi Vo, 31, was arrested for allegedly attempting to stab a local boy, jailed for two days, duly sentenced and fined $200. To the sheriff, the Asians had tried to "infiltrate" a high school dance and "mess with our kids." To Le and his UXB colleagues, Vo was a victim of small-town...
Sixty-four men and 36 women had been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa only a few hours earlier. Seventy-two graduating seniors had already been inducted into the society last semester or during the spring of their juniors year. Elections are based primarily on grades...