Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word--in the highly degradable pulp pages of this monthly. At no extra cost, Black Mask came wrapped in an irony. It was founded with $500 in 1920 by the journalist and scholar H.L. Mencken and the playwright George Jean Nathan as a way of financing the unprofitable Smart Set, their magazine of uptown wit and sophisticated prose. The "louse," as Mencken called his detective journal, was an immediate success, and in six months he sold it for $100,000, the price of 10 million words...
...felt like I didn't belong, as if Harvard were a club for rich, smart people. The language was different--people didn't understand my language," Cruz says of his reaction to Harvard in the fall...
...fundamentallyabsurd that is to be excused, because Harvard isnothing if not an incubator for such self-centereddefinition and redefinition. At few other placesand at few other times in our lives are we allowedthe luxury of extended self-absorption. One can domost anything here as long as one is smart enoughto put it all together during the two to threeweeks of each term known as reading and examperiods. One can have a nervous breakdown, descendinto a cycle of mindless sex and drugs, partyevery night all night, and engage in any number ofdeviant activities...
...alumni love to make it. Especially Carl Vigeland '69, who was smart enough to recognize that the story of Harvard and its money is worth a full-length book, especially with the 350th anniversary rolling in this September...
...makes a monthly expedition to Fred Segal, a Los Angeles clothing shop, where she spends up to $300 on surfer shorts, Japanese print shirts and other exotic duds for her five-year-old son Brandon. Joel Stillman, 38, and his wife Renee, 38, of suburban Detroit spent $800 on smart-looking ski outfits and equipment for their son Jonathon, 11, and daughter Sara, 8. Karen Topalian, 40, bought her daughter Kendra, almost 2, a $120 yellow pima cotton frock. Says Topalian, who lives in Cohasset, Mass.: "I love my children to look nice...