Word: schoolishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some Harvard students, band members in particular, have asked Powell if she feels "high-schoolish." Powell vigorously defends the squad against charges of immaturity: "Look at all the other big-name colleges. They all have cheerleaders." Similarly, they scoff at accusations that they are perpetuating the sexist stereotype of a submissive, giggly teenager. Butler insists cheerleading is a sport, like football. "We aren't just jumping up and down; your feet have to be pointing exactly one way, your hands have to be in a special position." If it looks childishly simple, Butler says, that is just "part...
Acquaintances remember Monette speaking occasionally of her fictional undergraduate days. Lucille Sprinkles recalls that Monette told her how disgusted she had been with the lesbianism of Radcliffe women. "She implied she had been a loner then," Sprinkles remembers. "Aloof," "protected," "rich," "prep-schoolish," "snooty" and "very bored and disinterested," is how others who knew her at the Business School describe...
...Dunster Lysistrata adds several musical numbers which contribute to its lightweight impression. The music is entertaining, though there is nothing particularly brilliant about any of it. Sometimes the whole production takes on a high-schoolish air, but this usually doesn't last too long. The tone and content of the production sometimes approaches that blend of the cute, the childishly obscene and the genuinely funny that must have been present in '30s House productions with titles like Whore and Piece...
According to Kaplan. "They wanted to start another humor magazine because there is no national equivalent to Punch (a British publication), and Mad is too high schoolish..., Twenty-First Century agreed to pay for it and the Lampoon agreed to franchise the name." Kaplan said that the franchise gives the local Lampoon the right to have the final say on all National Lampoon copy. Unfortunately, Kaplan did not exercise his option of editing the April galley proofs, although he did make changes in the forthcoming May edition...