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...most Oahu residents are -- knows they are not your typical "Hey, let's put on a show" charity fund raisers. Having professionally directed and choreographed all his life, director Cione will accept nothing less than polished and professional - performances, even from an all-volunteer cast. Says he: "I abhor any attempt, big budget or small, that comes off looking like a PTA production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oahu, Hawaii Dancing on The Home Front | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C: (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply: `It Is Time to Disillusion' | 1/16/1991 | See Source »

...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C: (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 8/14/1990 | See Source »

Though his city was already so jittery that many openly speculated about the possibility of 1960s-style racial rioting, Dinkins had waited until May 11 to deliver what he called a "major, major" appeal for calm. Said he: "I oppose all bigotry against anyone, anywhere. I abhor it. I denounce it, and I'll do anything -- anything right and anything effective -- to prevent it." Speaking for many blacks and whites, the Rev. Calvin Butts, pastor of Harlem's % Abyssinian Baptist Church, welcomed Dinkins' appeal but noted that it "should have been delivered months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broken Mosaic | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D's. Consider C- a failure.). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

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