[This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald]@TWC D-Link bookThis Side of Paradise CHAPTER 1 54/57
The slickers of that year had adopted tortoise-shell spectacles as badges of their slickerhood, and this made them so easy to recognize that Amory and Rahill never missed one.
The slicker seemed distributed through school, always a little wiser and shrewder than his contemporaries, managing some team or other, and keeping his cleverness carefully concealed. Amory found the slicker a most valuable classification until his junior year in college, when the outline became so blurred and indeterminate that it had to be subdivided many times, and became only a quality. Amory's secret ideal had all the slicker qualifications, but, in addition, courage and tremendous brains and talents--also Amory conceded him a bizarre streak that was quite irreconcilable to the slicker proper. This was a first real break from the hypocrisy of school tradition.
The slicker was a definite element of success, differing intrinsically from the prep school "big man." "THE SLICKER" 1.
Clever sense of social values. 2.
Dresses well.
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