Word: beate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Crimson would love to win the Heps, it is doubtful that even at full strength it will be able to beat Army. Its chances for finishing first among the Ivy schools, however, look quite good...
...have won the Harvard-Yale meet," Simon said. "But when it really counts, not only are we going to beat Yale, we're going to make a hell of a showing at Heps...
...laymen alike in the long-standing battle over the value of standardized tests. Now a new book subjects the exam to the most withering blast yet. In None of the Above (Houghton Mifflin; $16.95), Author David Owen charges that the SAT is badly conceived, badly written, easy to beat if you know how, and all but worthless as a measure of preparation for college...
...Review's real secret, Owen maintains, amounts to code cracking; that is, mastering E.T.S.'s system for building an SAT and then turning that system to beat the test. A representative midrange SAT question is answerable by most bright students, eminently flunkable by slow ones, and something between for the middling muddler, whom the Review nicknames Joe Bloggs. Thus the square root of 4 is no good for the middle-to-hard portion of an SAT, since anyone may guess the right answer to be 2. But the square root of 9 is perfect: easy if you know your algebra...
...which the suburbs become the stage for fragments of Elizabethan comedy, bits of Wodehouse farce and a generalized send-up of The Great Gatsby. There is even a climactic courtroom scene in which Teeters must defend himself against charges of smut peddling. Unfortunately, he has arrived in Merrymount one beat behind the conservative backlash and cannot convince a jury that his cassettes are the visual equivalent...