Word: harvardish
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...Neal, who I assumed took five minutes to speak his piece to an assistant, how the writing went. He told me it had taken him four hours, five drafts and four friends, who had given him advice. "I tried to use a lot of big words to sound Harvardish," he said. "I just really respect your profession. I didn't want to have too many Ebonic words in there." And I do believe that at Harvard, students now write papers in which they...
...Here we cheer on the football team, not quiddich players–and Larry Summers is no Albus Dumbledore. Cheesy comparisons aside, after seeing the just-released Harry Potter movie, Melissa A. Eccleston ’04 “got the vibe that the whole storyline was very Harvardish.” Recalling scenes such as when Harry and friends leave home to go to school and features such as “houses” featuring masters and common rooms, she characterizes Hogwarts as “Harvard plus magic...
...interview by reiterating her credo: the success of her books with the general public is enough for her; she does not really care what the reviewers think. With typical wit, however, she did express the hope that The Crimson review of Such Devoted Sisters would not be "too Harvardish...
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