Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...significant amount of time dreading my impending "adulthood," which entails getting a steady job and buying life insurance and wallpaper. As a sophomore I'm already contemplating which fellowships I could get so as to stave off being a grown up for a few more years. Therefore imagine my shock when the participants at this year's annual Harvard Model United Nations (HMUN) conference, only a few years younger than myself, readily treated me like a grown up. I tried to inform them of their gross mistake. I purposefully dressed more casually. I sat on the floor Indian-style...
...Revolving Museum as well as nearly 500 artists. This part of Boston used to be a decaying area filled with block upon block of abandoned warehouses. Artists, attracted by the cheap rents and wide-open industrial spaces, began moving in in the early 1970s. However, artists are the unwilling shock troops of gentrification, followed into once-gritty neighborhoods by young professionals who drive up the rent. Dot-coms have begun to move into the area in the last several years, and, because of the city's multi-billion dollar South Boston Waterfront project and ensuing private development, these are probably...
...although he admits to experiencing "a bit of culture shock," as a student from a family in which neither parent had gone to college, he quickly distinguished himself academically...
...recent staff editorial in The Salient accused the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance of domesticating the Undergraduate Council into a queer lapdog and making Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 into a mere bedfellow, in a manner of speaking. It came as a terrible shock to all of us in the queer community--could someone please direct us to the glorious Harvard in which queer radicals and militant feminists have their...
Stein's father understood the depths of his son's neuroticism. Although he wins more than three-fourths of the $5,000 trivia contests on the Emmy Award-winning game show, Stein is tortured by his losses. That mix of shock, disbelief and self-hatred isn't rehearsed; he says he sees a $250-an-hour psychiatrist to deal with his fear of losing. Stein's wallet is stuffed with affirming notes from the psychiatrist that say things like "This game does not measure your real intelligence, which no one would ever question" and "You are a star, and they...