Word: impression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painlessly introduced literally thousands of hard-to-impress gut-seekers and science concentrators to Homer's muse and the other folk tales studied in the course. Many of them seem
...With this handy advice from Pappa, I headed off from a small town in Mississippi to the wild and woolly world of collegiate schooling. Of course, Pappa and I had different conceptions of what Harvard College was all about. To me, Harvard was principally highbrow conversations, a way to impress people at cocktail parties, and, most of all, a ticket out of the boondocks, where strict Baptist morality posed considerable obstacles to my social education...
Approach #4. The Cultivated Superiority Approach. Prerequisite: before you arrive in Cambridge, compile a list of things that you have done or that your family owns that are sure to impress anybody. A subdivision of this is Intellectual One-Upmanship. If your new roommate has read all of Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, come right back at him with your A.P. scores (fours are dull), or your knowledge of physical chemistry. Lying is permissable, because no one will ever know the difference if you can effectively fake it. Make pronouncements about everything. Wear a lot of preppie...
...painlessly introduced literally thousands of hard-to-impress gut-seekers and science concentrators to Homer's muse and the other folk tales studied in the course. Many of them seem
...towering moneyman to impress the gnomes of Europe...