Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democrat were perfect fall guys for him. The Republican was an ex-Democrat and glibness on wheels, and his big smile looked as if he'd worked on it all summer. The Democrat reminded you of your classic, cheerfully clueless high school principal. Both of them had that tendency common to career politicians of putting their mouths into gear with their minds only partly engaged. They blathered. This made Jesse look like Abe Lincoln...
...been a common phenomenon in the history of the Core: students register for core courses expecting guts, only to be confounded by hundreds of pages of reading, multiple problem sets and unexpectedly complicated theories each week. But this year, the problem seems endemic. Once passable courses like Literature & Arts B-51: "First Nights" are toughening their standards...
sexile: (v.) to boot your roommate out of the bedroom for the night to have sex. "Man, my roommate sexiled me, so I have to sleep on the common room couch...
Much to the chagrin of all the Harvard cynics who adamantly denounce the dating scene, kvetch about the lack of available hotties, and repetitively soothe their angst-ridden parents with the all-too-common "no one dates and falls in love at college anymore," there are quite a few Harvard couples who fit the archetypal fairytale. These lucky students have sifted through the mass of pseudo-intellectuals, physicists, Porcellian men, and Pitches to finally stumble upon that one special person to whom they can croon "It had to Be You." These students have evaded the Harvard meat market and have...
Oliver believes that it is important to meet people with common interests and values "because those are the things you are attracted to. If you meet someone at a party the only thing you really have in common is that you like to drink...