Word: wonk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take any flares, you fall into the "non-entities" who have no clique and who consequently consume their time by reading which they have been told to do. As it happens, the importance of this decision is misleading because no matter whether you were a jock or a wonk, you still would have gone to Harvard...
...might dispute the statement that most of the new-comers to the pre-med world are biologists, chemists, and even mathematicians and physicsts, who fit the "science wonk" description. And, this single statement seems to be the crux of Jerry's argument; "they won't be practicing physicans. And therein lies the tragedy of the situation. For instant pre-meds have, on the average, more impressive academic records." Again, I ask for documentation...
...majors have long suffered from the wonk image, but all this time they have been quietly laughing the last laugh and taking Ec 101 (Tu. Th. 2:30-4:00), The Economy of the United States, and Ec 108 (M. W. F. at 9, Spring Term), Economic Development and Underdevelopment. Both courses are taught by charming, interesting lecturers who have the courtesy not to lean too hard on the red pencil...
...music wonk predicted that "this was the year they would do Gotterdammerung on a card table." He wasn't far off. Saturday night the Music Club mounted what was billed as a concert performance of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio...
...wire"), Buswell likes the "frantic balance" that college has imposed on his life. "Harvard," he says, "is the kind of place where you feel guilty every time you play ping-pong." It is hectic, but when things get tight, he is renowned in the dorm for his ability to "wonk" (know spelled backward), or cram, for exams. Last week, preparing for back-to-back concerts in Hackensack, N.J., and Akron, James Oliver Buswell IV sighed sagely: "It will be refreshing to get back and be just another one of the students searching for truth...