Word: twerp
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...Bunting, commenting on her surprise at being appointed to teach genetics at Bennington, said: "Bennington was so arty that they didn't care how you taught science, even if you were a twerp." Bennington's art is in choosing "twerps" like Mrs. Bunting to teach science...
...turned out, "Bennington was so arty that they didn't care how7 you taught science, even if you were a twerp." She also discovered that she "learned faster than those students, and they had higher IQs." She had learned the art of learning: finding the key questions that unlock big answers. Ever since, she has been known for giving students odd research problems (Can spiders smell?) that lead to revealing answers (yes, with their legs...
...extremely unclear arguments cannot be met with thunders of outraged logic, for the issues are not essentially logical. Unfortunately, the alternative is that the Faculty sit down and discuss the issue with the Council, most unlikely when most regard the student group as combining the worst features of twerp politics and administrative annoyance...
...warns Innocence what to expect from the villain, but Innocence of course gets left with the hole in every doughnut and blithely keeps on buying Brooklyn Bridge until all his cash and even his saxophone are gone. The taxi dancer, who by this time is in love with the twerp, wants to put him back in the music business, but how can the poor girl make $200 to buy her jazzbo a new set of tubes? In New York, says Scriptwriter Kanin grimly, there is only one way a poor girl can make that kind of money. Will...
...stop, and look. There is an unpleasant number of students in each of the Houses who will shortly be knocking on the Masters' study doors, aspiring and available young men who would be glad to take the burden of inter-House membership. These are just the kind of twerp politico types that the Student Council should not include in its membership. The reason Masters should appoint students is just that it is desirable to avoid the slick and often incompetent student-elected representatives, and to get more capable men in the student government...