Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somewhere along the line I paid my tutor a visit, and found him incredibly depressed. His politics, I had long realized, were not mine--but he was a good guy and he was together and damn smart. And I found him calling radical "criminals" and talking about a wave of "anti-intellectualism" sweeping the University. He pointed out that even some of the most liberal Faculty people in the social sciences had opposed the Heimert resolution, which passed, he said, only with the votes of a lot of biologists and physicists who weren't going to have anything...
...NOBODY likes a smart-ass, remember that," someone over thirty told me last summer. I had doubts about the dogma even then, but now I'm certain that it's false. James Simon Kunen, 20 years old and a sometimes Columbia revolutionary, is a smart-ass if ever there was one, and Time, The New Republic, Newsweek, and the New York Times all love him and his first book, The Strawberry Statement...
...education at Penn is pretty good, and no one would deny that there were a few smart people there. But in the past, their, their teams were losing ones, at least when Harvard was the opponent. Only in basketball did the Quakers hold an edge, and they had never beaten a Harvard squad in squash, cross country, or hockey. It was tradition to lose to the Crimson, and a damn good one at that...
...fashion, but she was the suburban stereotype, one of those "young mamas" who reads Redbook and shops at Peck & Peck. She brought to modeling the same qualities that have made her a star: a combination of controlled, countrified chic and hip innocence that types her as that kind of smart, pretty, unapproachable girl who sat in the back row of the sophomore poetry seminar...
During the week Dave Tyler took over the number two seat on the Crimson varsity from John Smart, who will row seven in the J.V. boat today. Dave Harmon will continue as stroke for the varsity, while Tom Dreyer will set the pace...