Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then I realize that his analysis pretty much got it. I'm rich and had a whole lot of opportunities as a kid and so that's why I'm at Harvard, or that's why they thought I was "smart" and so am at Harvard. And he's poor, has about zero alternatives, of which working for Harvard is the best one. Yeah, I said, he's right. I can't really argue with that. It exists. So do I. So does...
Nobody ever accused Breslin of running scared, but now that he is turning to writing books, he does fret about his own lack of discipline. Not about his background, though. "I'm not smart, but then you tell me who is. I shoulda gone to an Ivy League college, then I coulda lied like the rest of them jerks wearing the striped ties." He seems overly proud of his limited tastes in literature. "Portnoy's Complaint! I don't read nothin' that ain't written in English...
...Roth's books have sold well, but he has never really been controversial or had his apartment examined in gossip columns ("the smart East 80s ... very solid, no patterns"). Now that Alexander Portnoy has made him a celebrity, he is dodging fame with SalI ingeresque determination-which, of course, only draws more attention to him. He used to answer the phone, "Benito Cereno here."* Now he doesn't answer his phone at all, and he tends...
Swinging with the Smart. The technicians practice Wall Street's most ar cane - some are unkind enough to say inane - art. In deciding whether to buy or sell a stock, the purists among them profess to care less about such fundamentals as a company's assets, its earnings, its management or even what it does. Instead, the chartists divine the fu ture of a stock by poring over a dis play of its past performance. The zigs and zags may ignore the fundamental "facts," but more important, technicians argue, the charts reflect what the mar ket knows...
...profit from - the operations of stock-market manipulators by keeping running graphs on the price and volume of trad ing in individual stocks. Today's chart ists have created considerable bafflegab, but they have also devised some simple patterns by which to follow the swings of the smart money (see chart) and watch for new patterns. Among the com mon signs of change...