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...grade glut has been spreading across academe. At Yale, 42% of all undergraduate spring-term grades were A's, and 46% of the senior class graduated with honors. "It's ridiculous," says Eva Balogh, dean of Yale's Morse College. "They get a B and they bawl. It takes a man or woman of real integrity to give a B." At American University, 75% of all grades last spring were A's and B's, leading an undergraduate dean to ask for a faculty inquiry. At the University of Pittsburgh, the average grade...
...well under half of today's 11 ½%-11¾% range. Only about a year ago, when major banks raised the prime by half a percentage point, to 6¾%. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns summoned the country's top bankers to Washington for a stern bawl-ing-out and succeeded in getting the increase partially rolled back...
Readers who may have wondered ever since freshman English what it feels like to have an arm torn off by Beowulf in Hrothgar's meadhall can now relax. It hurts like the devil. "I bawl like a baby. I am slick with blood," cries Grendel in this splendid fiend's-eye view of an Anglo-Saxon epic. "My heart booms with terror." Yet as Novelist John Gardner retells the story, much of Grendel's pain is pure philosophical chagrin...
...White House memorabilia. To her former employer, it must seem that Mrs. Gallagher's sense of history was all too keen. In any event, the lesson for men and women of Jackie's eminence is quite clear. Never write memos. Never keep accounts. And above all, never bawl out a secretary...
...friends, sweet-talking nightclub ciggie girls into handing customers only Philip Morris when they'd ordered another brand; by 1933, he was the company's vice president for sales and there created one of the world's most famous living trademarks, hiring midget John Roventini to bawl "Call for Philip Maw-ress." His company never led the industry, but largely because of him it grew from $4,000,000 in 1933 to $400 million by the time he retired...