Word: wonk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sedgwick, the villainous "ten-time Nobel prize loser," seeks to ruin Superman's reputation in Metropolis. Strongly played by Fred Barton, the mad doctor epitomizes nurdiness; he is the science wonk par excellence, dressed in white lab coat, sneakers, and ABC sportscaster's plaid pants. One of the best moments in the play comes when Sedgwick daintily galivants across the stage, trilling his song "Revenge," and rolling the "r" at each refrain...
...Look at the Franciscan motto, 'To work is to pray,'" Robinson noted, "and it's obvious that the word 'wonk' is just 'know' spelled backwards...
...afternoon progresses and classes end more students flock to the river, and Harvard beach looks more and more like Fort Lauderdale on College Weekend. And the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly, from wonk to human being, has commenced...
...broke out. One of the hockey players, a monster from South Boston who had really wanted to be a doctor but found it interfered with his slap shot, carried a particularly heavy load home from Father's Six one night and stopped in front of Carlo's door. "Fuckin' wonk, I'm gonna major in psychology now, so there," he announced. The opening salvo fired, he and everyone else whiled away the next four months by greeting Carlo with a familiar, but unusually inspired, assortment of applie-pie beds, shaving-cream beds, cold-pizza beds, and all the other ingenious...
...This was simply a wonk race, like everything else at Harvard--and this time I just got out-wonked," Michael D. Kendall '79 said as he took his place at the end of the line...