Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...myth of genius says that if you're smart enough to be a physicist, you don't need to be taught. Too many students believe this--some relish the masochism, others are too cowered to admit their difficulties and so never complain. I hope this article encourages other to complain or at least not to take the department personally...
...natty charmer, and Germaine yearned for his affection. But, probably because she was smart and naturally skeptical, she got little from her wary father except put-downs. Germaine educated herself, went on to a successful career as a scholar, teacher and author. But the early slights -- her father's callousness and failure to confide in her -- still rankle, and she is zestfully candid about her resentments. "Yippee!" she exults when a parental lie comes to light, or "Gotcha!" Yet this glee is tempered by a deep sympathy with the narrow possibilities of her father's life and indeed with...
...street-smart bunch of very courageous scrappers. We have protests, which include taking over the opening plenary session of the AIDS conference in Montreal, blocking the Golden Gate Bridge and protesting endlessly at city hall here in New York. We have telephone zaps where we tie up switchboards. We purchased millions of dollars of tickets when Northwest Airlines refused to carry AIDS people as passengers, tickets that weren't paid for, of course. Because we are gay people and have wonderful taste and can put on wonderful shows, our demonstrations are usually very theatrical...
...Wisconsin. This year my father joined us and we played cutthroat for a couple hours. My dad went to Harvard, before becoming dean of a string of law schools, Chris paid his own way through school, after doing time on the oil rigs in Montana, and I'm a smart-ass undergraduate, so we had interesting conversation. After Dad went home, Chris took me for dinner. Gyros, a shot of ouzo, and beer (Miller Draft; it was early, and Chris felt flush...
...thrills, then genially, inventively exceeds them. Its brand name is Tremors, and the curious thing about it is that it is based on an ancient formula, practically a folk remedy: a small isolated community is disturbed first by mysterious rumblings, then by alarming disappearances and deaths, after which large, smart, implacable creatures manifest themselves and desperate defenses are improvised by a cast that is not obviously wiser or braver than the average audience...