Word: bard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bard of the Beat Generation can still grind startling, creative, and provocative images from the grist mill of his modern America. A four-line poem entitled "Suprise Mind" reads...
...swallowed lines, the supporting cast keeps the inspiring lunacy going at a quick, clever pace. Stoppard's stock of metaphysical puns and absurd rhetoric of despair flies so fast that they rarely become over-bearing. From all sides of the coin, a spirited showing for two of the Bard's interchangeable bit players...
...because money in the family is very tight (Carla's mother is a cook, and her father is disabled), there seemed no possibility that Carla could go on to a top college after graduation. In February, however, the Stoughs heard that she had qualified for special admission to selective Bard College in Annandale-on- Hudson, N.Y. Under the Bard plan, Carla will owe only the modest annual sum of $3,742, which she would have paid at her local state university in Shippensburg, instead of Bard's normal $14,550. Furthermore, Bard will match any additional financial aid Shippensburg might...
...Bard offer has been taken up by 65 students since the program was < launched in January. It is one of a growing number of innovative financial plans aimed at bringing families relief from the daunting college costs of today, not to mention the average annual increases of 7% that threaten to put a tag of $100,000 or more on a turn-of-the-century education. One such measure has passed the Michigan house of representatives and is pending before the state senate. If the bill passes, as expected, it would enable Michigan parents with newborn babies to invest roughly...
...students' abilities. Among the more controversial programs: Goucher College's 100th-anniversary gift of two scholarships at 1885 rates ($100 per year), and Fairleigh Dickinson's "twofdr," under which a student's sibling can enter at half the regular tuition of $5,670. One critic of such gambits is Bard President Leon Botstein, who scorns them as "desperate marketing of a silly kind" designed for show rather than education. Citing his plan, which is limited to students who rank among the top ten in their high school classes, Botstein says, "We've thrown a gauntlet down to other places...