Word: wonk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...haven't heard of the Beatles yet? Go back to Lamont, wonk...
...same conflict. Fighting the desire to be a drama wonk, Seltzer strives to establish a balance between the hours spent on the Loeb's mainstage, those teaching classes and tutorial, and those in the stacks researching his book. He seems to have done it. Besides teaching the second half of English 125, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Seltzer is supervising the Quadricentennial program, will direct Julius Caesar, act in King Lear, and is writing a book on the styles of Elizabethan acting...
Fritz G. A. Eager then read the Class Poem, an original work of eloquence and insight. He in turn was followed by the Ivy Orator, Thomas J. Babe, Jr. Babe, to the delight of his audience, discussed at length the place of the "Wonk" at Harvard. Citing a wide range of authorities, including the Yale Program for the Advancement of Adult Propensities and Plato's Wonk, Babe urged kindness and understanding for the "wonk" and called on those present to regard him with tolerance if not affection. Do not pass a wonk, he pleaded movingly, without saying, "There, wonk...
Enthusiasm among the crowd ran high, especially when house committee Chairman John Purvis told them the march on Kirkland had been thwarted by a Cambridge regulation which requires a parade permit to march across a city street. Temporarily frustrated, the crowd of eager Funsters turned to shouting "wonk" to students deserting the cause for Lamont and study...
Enthusiasm among the crowd ran high, especially when house committee Chairman John Purvis told them the march on Kirkland had been thwarted by a Cambridge regulation which requires a parade permit to march across a city street. Temporarily frustrated, the crowd of eager Funsters turned to shouting "wonk" to students deserting the cause for Lamont and study...