Word: smarted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Almost all the foreign students find that most Harvard students seem to care very little about the world outside the American borders. "I thought everyone here would be so smart--I mean, this is Harvard," says Juan Pitarque '77, from Ecuador. "I guess they are intelligent, but some of them don't even know Ecuador is in Latin America...
...parvenu actors and actresses--the tots in Hollywood--sit around a barren movie set, pink slips in their hands, pondering their impending return to poverty. Kitty Kaboodle, dancing wonder, naif from Moot Point, Montana, says she'll go home, give up the glamour. But Henna Hoofer, jaded and street-smart, tries to change Kitty's mind; she tells her she's got to keep on, then looks up into the lights in a mood of inspiration invoking the dream of the silver screen: "Everywhere," she says, "there are girls... and a few strange boys... who want to grow...
However, to avoid embarrassment in its public disputes with workers, the University takes only those positions which it feels sure will prevail. Harvard is too smart, and, for that matter, too image-conscious, to be caught in a public forum with its legal pants down. As Powers explains, "We carefully examine our legal position before we take it; we generally can accurately predict what will happen in most cases...
...cases receive more than one day's attention. As a rule, detective work takes place after an arrest has been made, not before, and consists mostly of "receiving reports, documenting files, and attempt ing to locate and interview victims on cases solved." that Are experience detectives shows smart, will slick not and be sexy? Says Greenwood: "Most detectives are suburban commuters who do their the rest of eight-hour us." turn and go home just like
...several years they have been a fixture of downtown Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in the old hard-coal country of northeastern Pennsylvania. They wear pins that say GET SMART, GET SAVED. Abstemious, straitlaced, pushy in their missionary piety, they work the streets, buttonholing teen-age passers-by with provocative zeal...