Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this really be rock, the average Rolling Stones freak may well ask? What it is has already been called a lot of things-classical rock, smart rock, rockaphonic, even garbage rock-but one thing is certain: the complex, educated sounds emanating from ELP, Focus, Wakeman and their like constitute a daring, exciting and hugely successful new kind of rock...
...bets are off. George Segal and Elliott Gould, a pair of raveled gamblers, need luck bad. They go to Reno, play big, win even bigger, and come up empty. Granted, there does not seem to be much of promise here, but Robert Altman has made a funny, smart, anxious movie about luck and lowlife...
...defend myself freshman year against the charge that this fear of success had irretreviably confused my psyche. Even one of my closest male friends concluded that "Cliffies" were generally fucked up. Not because we were aggressive or too smart, but because the social scene we had been raised in was prejudiced against intellectual women and bound to warp our psyches. Although he admitted that his girlfriend and I were exceptions, most "Cliffies" were a bit too strange for him. And many men were less willing to grant exceptions...
...women on my floor had reacted violently to the pressure of these attacks. They struck back with an attack on the masculinity of the men around them. These men didn't measure up to the brilliant Harvard Man they had expected to find at college. The men might be smart, but they were also weak and insecure, incapable of dealing with equally bright women...
...agreements he was signing on his trips abroad. For that reason foreign leaders who tuned into Ford's speech to Congress were encouraged by the President's warmly received promise to cultivate Capitol Hill, as well as his emphasis on inflation and other domestic issues. Says Ian Smart, deputy director of Britain's prestigious Royal Institute of International Affairs: "The U.S. as the center of influence, the way in which its economy is run, the way in which it will conduct itself as a buyer and seller of resources, are of far more importance than the panoply...