Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest suck-up to ever apply (At least in Fitzsimmons' memory)? One student in the early to mid-70s sent close to 100 letters of recommendation, including one from his orthodontist, who assured the admissions office that everything was okay now, and the applicant now had a wonderful smile. "He showed up at a recruiting session and at the office," Fitzsimmons says. "During the interview, he literally stopped the interviewer and made him listen to a tape of his music," he adds. He played the cello...
...interview into a therapy session. An interviewer would ask me about my extracurriculars, we would get to talking about competitiveness at Harvard, and I would finally add, "Yeah, a lot of people here seem to do things because they feel it's expected of them." "Hmm," my interviewer would smile, "I hear it gets particularly bad around this time of the year." Sooner or later, my interviewers got a whiff of my real interests, the way police dogs sniff out two kilos of hash in a carry...
...epitomize the heinous fallout of a monster class, the small-scale implications of negligible student-teacher relations can prove just as detrimental to the student. Mendelsohn himself admits that the distance between him and his students in his Core course is glaring. "Someone will walk though the Yard and smile at me and I'll have no idea that they are in my class," he recalls...
...Women were not welcome here unless they were attractive as hell, married to someone wealthy or sleeping with one of the writers," she says with a wry smile...
...trick of the catalog, as art form and selling tool, is to create an idealized world. On the planet J.Crew, for example, it is always the weekend of the Princeton game; translucent blond girls, clones of Mia Farrow long ago, smile at guys who don't tuck their shirts in, and touch the guys (on the calf, for example) in a lightly intimate way that is somehow proprietary. For the summer catalog, the setting switches to some Martha's Vineyard of the mind that, similarly, will know neither death nor gingivitis...