For all men, but particularly those not yet married or with children, sexual experience was a source of great pleasure, prestigious and central to their masculine identity.
Consider /r/AskHistorians, a section of reddit devoted to discussions about history in which one's input is given precedence based on relevance, quality, and the use of good sources rather than the possession of prestigious degrees.
At its heart is nostalgia for "the idea of the book as a prestigious object, source of wisdom, and impious disturbance".
Meanwhile, he rants and rages about the decline of the novel, about "Oxfam, Amazon, eBooks, iPads, Oprah, apps, Richard and Judy, Facebook … the graphic novel, Kindle, vampirism", about Swedish detective novels and misery memoirs, about the loss of "the idea of the book as prestigious object, source of wisdom, and impious disturbance".
It was his belief that the vogue for identifying the source of meats, having trickled down to less prestigious restaurants, might soon face a backlash.
He has received a number of prestigious awards including the 2003 Francis Crick Award from the Royal Society, the 2005 Overton Prize from the International Society for Computational Biology and the 2005 Benjamin Franklin Award for contributions in Open Source Bioinformatics.
"I guess these things are sort of prestigious," he said.
This paper examines the outcome additionality of prestigious early-stage government subsidies.
Small number of prestigious scientific journals publishes most of the world's scientific information.
We show that chief executive officers (CEOs) of prestigious firms earn less.
