Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pretty shocking because you don't think things like this could happen to "smart" people. It shows that it's not just evil psycho people who are committing rape and experiencing rape. It is Ivy League students...
...magazine is a living thing. The child that Briton Hadden and Henry Luce brought into the world in March 1923 was squally, bratty, brash. The new smart aleck--its voice distinctive, sophomoric, self-assured--thrived, almost from the start: born lucky. The magazine sailed through the 1920s as if the decade were a breezy shakedown cruise...
Brit Hadden, who had grown up in Brooklyn and was, much more than Luce, a true product of middle-class America, wanted TIME to be the witty, sophisticated, even cynical voice of his generation--something like a newsman's version of H.L. Mencken's popular magazine The Smart Set. But to Luce, TIME had a different purpose. It was to be a vehicle of moral and political instruction, a point of connection between the world of elite ideas and opinion and middle-class people in the "true" America hungry for knowledge...
...about the incident shared my definition. An older college student did not understand why I was upset. She thought it was great that I had "lost my virginity during a fling, because there was no emotional attachment." An adult who taught health education couldn't comprehend "why such a smart girl would let something like that happen" to her. A close friend called me a slut...
...continuing paucity of women science faculty, untenured as well as tenured, surely contributes materially to Harvard's relatively poor showing in educating women scientists. No woman smart enough to be a Harvard student can fail to note that she is unlikely to have much of a chance at the kind of science career that is being modeled so attractively for men. It is also possible that the admissions process somehow fails to identify enough promising women science students. In addition, there are persistent reports of women being discouraged by some faculty members' disparaging attitudes...