Word: covered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ability as soon as they enter first grade. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out who gets placed in the low ability groups. The net effect is that the majority of black pupil are doomed to under-achieving at age six. The "poorer" first grade students cover less material than their "brighter" peers, supposedly because they are unable to handle as much...
...unreasonable fare," by traditional CAB idiom, is not one that is too high: it is a fare that clearly does not allow the airline to cover the cost of transporting the ticket-holder. For competitive reasons, an airline might conceivably want to introduce such a fare; even though it lost money, it would lure customers away from the competitor and thereby increase "brand identification." The "reasonableness test" attempts to preclude such cut-throat tactics. To the CAB and the airlines, a fare is "reasonable" if it passes the "profit-impact" test: the revenues generated by the fare must excede...
...fact, it's just about as ugly as it ever was. The layout still looks as though it was put together by a scissors-and-paste-stick-weilding third-grader only moments before it was rushed to the photo-offset man. And the attempts at profound symbolism on the cover fall as flat as ever. But now it's functional, and that's all that matters...
Danny Troob's and John Forster's music is a splendid way to cover the script's sins. A good number of the songs sound the same, but it's a good sound and the repetitions are easy to forgive. Troob seems fascinated with a pattern of slow-lead-in, break into new, snappy meter, plant a long dance between the second and third verse. The best of them are straightforward satires--anemic Junior's self-discovery ("Number One and Only You") and a stay-away-from-sin number at the start of the Second Act ("You Can Be Celibate...
...recent petition sponsored by a Faculty group uses platitudes about academic freedom to cover up the main issue of racism at Harvard and is thus a direct attack on the Black students who stopped the riot control course...