Word: impression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news for you. You're not going to impress anyone by hanging around the condiment table at the Union or taking your lecture notes in shorthand...
...difficult to pretend that you are an athlete. Some of us make a career out of it. And while you may not impress your fellow newcomers, if anything you'll be characterized, and that's half the battle won in the terrorism of the freshman identity crisis...
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-Upsmanship. If your new roommate has real 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 everyghing. Wear a log of preppie...
Third-team All-American right hander Larry Brown finished second in the nation in ERA last spring (0.95), and if that fails to impress you, check him out QB'ing at Harvard Stadium September...
Vance's presentation did not satisfy everyone on the House committee that the Administration's diplomacy was on track, but it did impress upon them Vance's quiet re-emergence as the man Carter wants to be out front as articulator of American foreign policy. The impression was heightened the following day when Vance, at Carter's request, presented a major formulation of America's African policy at the 58th annual meeting of the Jaycees in Atlantic City...