Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clearly betrays the influence of Julian Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot, in which a literary scholar hides from the failure of his marriage in his obsession with Flaubert. Amis, Barnes and McEwan are close friends. The three friends inspire and rival one another. The form of Black Dogs echoes the smart, complex, but often self-conscious tone of McEwan's literary circle...
...smart, we're talented, and doggone it, people like us (or at least we like ourselves). But every so often we members of the Harvard community feel the need to engage in a public confessional ritual. To say, in effect, that reports of our superiority have been greatly exaggerated...
...appraisal? "Smart! Innovative! Fine performances all around! A scam...
...Similarly, the President denounced government waste last week, but he is not above rolling the pork barrel himself. He found $500 million for displaced defense workers during a recent trip to Southern California. His vow to create a network of more than 100 "manufacturing extension centers" seems smart only if he intends to take credit for killing it later...
CAPTION: To get ahead in life today, is it more important to be lucky or smart...