Word: slackerly
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...movement's tactics include harshly humorous "actions." Over Easter, members handed out eggs symbolizing the regime, saying to recipients, "It is hard, but it will break." Slacker slogans such as "Bite the system!" are everywhere. At a smoke-filled gathering recently, members debated how to sabotage the official opening of an apartment block. "Let's send guys up on the rooftops and shower [people] with leaflets," suggested a member. Not good enough, rejoined a frail girl: Spray the building with graffiti the night before! The mischievous atmosphere evaporated, however, when someone's mother called to say her son had been...
...tacked up later. The John Harvard Scholar, meanwhile, can pick a similar little cube, only entirely white inside, equipped with not one but two desks, white noise generator and ample overhead lighting. The naturalist would receive a room with inclined walls and rock climbing grips, while the slacker would get a room full of last year's garbage. And, lastly and leastly, the aspiring investment banker, after putting down the cell phone for a much-overdue battery charge, will get additional practice at corporate life in a large common room complete with potted plants, conference phone, marble table and swivel...
...blackjack. It's a nice living, but not a lifestyle that offers much in the way of parental bragging rights. This is a matter of some moment to Seth's sour father (Ron Rifkin), a federal judge who has sentenced his son to life in the doghouse for his slacker ways...
...same, the job of council president isn't exactly a slacker position. Besides banging the gavel...
...posturing to no avail. The kids were convinced. At first I chalked it up to their own over-eagerness. As the dust settled, however, I realized that I was the one who was mistaken. In fact, every Harvard student who still believes that they are the same fun-loving slacker they were in high school is also mistaken. Ladies and gentlemen: we've all grown up, we just haven't realized...