Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bender's favorite example of athletic importance is that of the University of Chicago, which eliminated its athletic programs just before the war in an all-out effort for intellectual progress. "Afterward," Bender points out, "they found out that the intellectuals, in quotes, were not really as smart as they thought and that the non-intellectuals, in quotes, were really quite valuable after all." Their experiment resulted in a lop-sided student body of "narrow intellectuals," and the school's appeal declined so much that five years ago the administration had trouble finding enough students to fill its quotas...
...pale blue eyes show anxiety and strain. The physical change was emphasized last week when Baron von Freudiger was asked if he could recognize Eichmann. The baron stared at the defendant for a long time, then said: "In my memory lives the image of the lieutenant colonel in a smart uniform standing with his legs astride, his hand on his holster, shouting at me from the heights of his 'master race.' But, nevertheless, I do think that...
Secret Knowledge. Like any smart organization man. Eichmann realized he must develop a specialty to compensate for his lack of leadership qualities. His rather routine work of compiling dossiers on "subversive elements" suggested a convenient subject-the Jews, who were the pet phobia of der Fŭhrer himself. Eichmann began reading Jewish history and religion, made an effort to learn Yiddish and Hebrew. He dazzled his colleagues-whose hatred of Jews was only equaled by their ignorance about them-with speeches on such abstruse subjects as the factional differences between two small Zionist groups-Poale-Zion and Zeire-Zion...
Trouble that can be shot with a cam era is Kroscenko's business. A three-block stretch of the Via Veneto, cascading from the Aurelian Wall to the U.S. embassy, is his favorite hunting ground. Here, in the glittering array of hotels, smart shops and open-air cafes, throng Kroscenko's picturesque prey. He is a paparazzo* one of a ravenous wolf pack of freelance photographers who stalk big names for a living and fire with flash guns at point-blank range...
Miss Rule is attractive as both dame and deity; Ritchard is resourceful at several kinds of deviltry; and when the two dance together, there are moments of charm. But even the better shenanigans get skittish or noisy, and the Offenbach delights are dulled by weak voices or smart-alecky words. Musically, The Happiest Girl in the World is much like re-encountering a bewitching Paris charmer on the sands, and in the spirit, of Coney Island. Squeezed between all that is heavy-handed in the show and all that is tawdry, what has merit is left gasping...