Word: pompousity
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...should cease organizing our own process so as to foster them. For once they start--once secrecy lets fears fester so that accusation resonates, opposed only by pompous privilege--they fester into a boil unless they're lanced with Evidence. Evidence depends on Openness. Let them see where your heart is. Let us show them where it is, with pride in our judgements and in our ability to articulate them. This is the strategy for which the United States Supreme Court spoke when asked in 1994 to consider the issue of privilege and secrecy in university tenure processes, a strategy...
Hunting's Southie friends joke about going to a bar in the Square (the Bow, as it turns out) and "----ing up some smart kids." And of course, once at the bar, Will meets a pompous grad student straight from central casting...
These stereotypes are by definition over-simplifications. But the audience appreciated each one. Why? Because while the stereotypes don't match everyone at MIT and Harvard, we've all met at least one arrogant professor and probably more than one pompous grad student. and this movie speaks from experience, filmed as it was through the lens of local actors playing Southie guys who interact with the academic worlds of MIT and Harvard...
Joseph P. DiPasquale '00 agreed that the bill was elitist. "It's stupid and pompous," he said. "It reinforces the Harvard sterotype...
SALMAN ("DON'T GIVE OUT MY ROOM NUMBER") RUSHDIE AGE: 50 OCCUPATION: Long-winded novelist BEST PUNCH: In the Guardian, Rushdie, still upset that Le Carre wondered if stores shouldn't carry his book for fear of bombings, called him "an illiterate pompous...