Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"I feel like everyone at Harvard must be so great at something, and I just hope I can measure up," she says.
Self-assured almost to the point of brashness, Pollack is something more--rare. Most of Harvard's student-athletes do not apply early.
"I think we've really proved something to the league because we were voted fourth at the beginning of the season, and we won the title," Lind said. "And we did it decisively."
Who bought this kind of book? I wondered. People like me, sporadic self-improvers, on lunch hours? Or only students? Or cabbies, wanting something to surprise their fares with, a book to wave in front of the Plexiglass? I had often wondered whether Penguin made money selling these paperbacks.
Yet this format could lead to the "when I was little" syndrome--explaining everything in terms of childhood experience. And Baker addresses this potential problem head-on. He writes that he turns "something that I was taking seriously as an adult into something soupier, less precise, more falsely exotic than...