Word: angoff
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DIED. Charles Angoff, 77, novelist, critic, educator and sole editorial associate of H.L. Mencken on the sassy literary monthly American Mercury; of cancer; in New York City. In 1925 Russian-born Angoff was chosen by Mencken over 61 applicants to assist him at the newborn Mercury. Angoff stayed on for 25 years, becoming, in Mencken's view, "the best managing editor in America." Angoff later published eleven novels about Jewish-American life, as recounted by a fictional alter ego named David Polonsky. In one of them Angoff savages a Mencken-esque "literary dictator of America," portraying...
...some agree that American schools have their faults, they point out that the test results do not necessarily indicate those failings. ETS research also suggests that, if anything, young Americans have been getting slightly brighter over the years. Then what could be causing the drop in scores? William H. Angoff, executive director of College Board programs at ETS, admits that no one can tell for sure. For one thing, because SATS are not compulsory (only about a third of high school seniors take them), the test group varies from year to year and is "a statistician's nightmare." However...