Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lusardi, 27, of San Diego asked fishermen how they were doing at catching squid, which is profitable because Latin Americans consider it a delicacy, happily pay high prices for it whenever it is available. The fishermen replied that their squid catch was awful. Why? Well, squid were just too smart to be caught in wholesale numbers. Lusardi squatted in the sand, and the fishermen gathered round while he sketched diagrams of a net-and-jar technique that European fishermen use to outsmart squid. It worked in Venezuela-and Phil Lusardi is king of the beach...
...program notes for the New York Idea, Howard Mumford Jones reports that one historian has called the play American social comedy at its best. If true, this is an appalling indictment of native playwrights. The New York Idea is a feeble conception indeed, too "smart" to be clever, too-contrived to be good farce, too maudlin to be good comedy. It is also incredibly dated...
Also at this time is Natural Sciences S-9, taken by those too lazy (or too smart) to take a "nat sci" during the winter. Don't take it if you don't have to, and those who have to take it are already painfully aware of its contents...
With chapters in 65 cities, the Urban League seeks civil rights progress through biracial consultation and cooperation. For that reason it is sometimes accused of Uncle Tomism-but smart, tough Director Young, 42, is certainly no Uncle Tom. Educated at Kentucky State College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Minnesota, he was dean of the Atlanta University School of Social Work when selected for his Urban League post. As soon as he assumed Urban League leadership, he stepped up the organization's pace. A veteran staffer protested: "We don't work this fast." Replied Young...
Latest Shift. Like any smart firm, the giants still copy competitors' hot items, but they get samples of them from their staff of comparison shoppers instead of rushing a partner up the street to Macy's third floor. The big companies are forcing the whole industry in their direction. They have already moved into double-knit garments and to new laminated materials; the latest shift is to the new stretch fabrics that started with ski pants, expanded into brassières and girdles, and will eventually pop up in almost everything women wear. "It used to be," says...