Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Formal Charges. The scandal broke when an undergraduate told her professor that other students had bought stolen exams. (Under the university's honor code-dating to 1914-students are supposed to report cheating.) The professor checked his records, found that some D students were inexplicably getting A's, and went to the honor court. Paul Marmish, a third-year law student and the honor-court prosecutor, started an investigation; within two weeks he had filed formal charges against 63 students and said that many more might be guilty...
...Allah is a spirit. To them, Allah is the Supreme Black Man among a race of divine black men. The rituals and practices of the Nation of Islam, however, are Muslim indeed: prayer five times daily facing Mecca, abstinence from pork and alcohol, no gambling and a puritanical sex code...
...hand, to strip oneself bare is not necessarily to make oneself lovable. Samuel Pepys, the diarist's diarist, ran this second risk. The self that Pepys portrayed for nine years, beginning Jan. 1, 1660, was laid startlingly bare, so much so that the diarist resorted to a shorthand code. The code has long since been cracked, and British Historian Richard Ollard is too conscientious a biographer to gloss over Pepys' failings. Instead, he does something almost as fatal-something Pepys never did. He apologizes...
...wife of a New York professor who summers in Wellfleet once aptly observed that only the rich and the poor really get a chance to see the sun set over Cape Code Bay. The rich monopolize the view from their bayside summer homes, and when they leave, only the poor remain on the Cape to watch during the winter months...
Schoolboy Code. The imaginary Wodehouse world, set somewhere between 1915 and 1935-the author could not be more precise-never changed. Even the most careful critic would be hard put to tell whether a novel was written last year or 50 years earlier. Wodehouse's stable of characters had bits and pieces added to them, but they never really developed or, indeed, aged by much more than an hour. Even their names suggested a Merrie England that never was-Gussie Fink-Nottle, Galahad Threepwood, Boko Fittleworth. The ethic that pervaded all the books and novels was Wodehouse...