Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...axiom that varsity play with smarter and quicker opposition is always much tougher than freshman. For the boys who come up to Weiland's squad this is even more true than at most colleges. Weiland's brand of hockey is essentially defensive, "stop the other team from scoring and get your scores on breaks," and it's often a totally new concept for the sophomores...
...Smarter than the cops, craftier than the crooks, too quick to be caught and domesticated by the classiest doll, TV's private detective runs second to only one competitor in the race for ratings. So far, in a season riddled with old scandals and new specials, the Cowpoke is still top draw, but the Eye has impressive fire power, and by year's end he may well be top gun. The TV tally sheet already lists 62 shows (network and syndicated) devoted to some variation of Cops & Robbers. Police detectives practice their profession on the networks only...
...Started with a Kiss (M-G-M). "Any marriage is wrong when you take the sex out of it," complains newlywed Air Force Sergeant Glenn Ford, who has just arrived from two sexless years in Iceland. "Do you think you're smarter than Freud?" he asks Showgirl Debbie Reynolds, who thinks she is - almost. In the first days of their marriage she gets the notion in her orange-rinsed head that sex clouds her judgment. "The trouble with us is the only thing we have in common is this physical attraction," she explains. In order to assure herself that...
Some Like It Hot. Marilyn Monroe as a thrush with an all-girls' band in the 1920s. The primitive Monroe, before Miller and Method, seemed funnier, lusher, smarter. But the movie is a fine Keystone-style comedy...
Stories like this keep raising the perennial Cambridge question, "Are girls smarter?" Few Harvard students will admit the superiority of their black-stockinged counterparts. If the Cliffies do happen to take home higher grades, such happenings are easily explained away by apple-polishing or by sentimental tales of Mathla, where there was a girl who "couldn't even read numbers." The girls, on the other hand, explained their consistently better records by claims to sheer intellectual power...