Word: uncool
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...coming to Harvard? Excited? All your dreams are about to come true. Your high school buddies are jealous, and you feel a little funny about that, but Jesus are you proud of it. And that cool pride--the pride you'll come to frown upon as uncool, at least with your peers--may make you just a bit more vulnerable than you'd like to think...
...there are other items more blatantly displayed on the Coop's shelves that are uncool. They used to say that you could tell a Harvardian from his non-Crimson counterpart, because only the latter would be caught dead in a Harvard T-shirt. If you need a sweatshirt because B&G overlooked your dorm when they were turning on the heat, go buy one. Don't go out of your way to find a place that sells them without the Crimson brand across the chest; you'll be frost-bitten by the time...
...terms). Pop Critic Richard Goldstein pictures a future in which college students, rebelling against the rebels of the '60s, might be decidedly placid and prim. "What if students opt out of the scenarios we have devised?" he asks. "What if the goals of our rebellion seem suddenly uncool? After all, every movement carries its own antithesis." What, in short, if the '70s are not sensate but square? Possible-but not likely...
...apathy of the sleeping '50's." But then at the prep schools some clever Life magazine correspondent had dubbed us the Negos," the super-sophisticate boys, the kids who were negative, sarcastic, caustic, alienated, and bitter about everything that touched them. We were the ones who thought it was uncool to show emotion, to become involved, to be loved or engage...
...apathy of the sleeping '50's." But then at the prep schools some clever Life magazine correspondent had dubbed us the "Negos," the super-sophisticate boys, the kids who were negative, sarcastic, caustic, alienated, and bitter about everything that touched them. We were the ones who thought it was uncool to show emotion, to become involved, to be love are engage...