Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smashes constitutional rights only selectively. The freedom of peaceable assembly that bug eyed suburbanites and teeny boppers use to redress their grievances each weekend in Harvard Square has never caused much of a stir down at City Hall. Even though the weekend gapers stop traffic, dirty the sidewall, cram the Coop, and induce claustrophobia, they obviously have redeeming social--and economic--value. A small circulation magazine that socks it to the powers that be, in the very language those powers use in their back rooms, is another matter...
...quitting belly-dance classes and attending the recently opened Russian ballet school instead. Soviet folk-dance groups and circus troupes tour the major Arab cities. Russian films play at the cinemas and on state-owned television, and Soviet books and periodicals that are skillfully prepared in Arabic now cram Arab bookstores. Arab universities now stress Russian language courses...
...school and irrigation dams in India, a youth center in Somalia, a sanitarium in Mongolia and a hospital on Cyprus. Averaging between 23 and 33 years old-about seven years older than the U.S. volunteers-the Communist corpsman signs up for a minimum of three months, takes a cram course on his host country and, once on the job, receives free board, lodging and $3 a week in spending money. To guard against defections, candidates are carefully screened, and those finally chosen travel and work in large groups, remaining where possible under the ever-vigilant eye of local Communists...
Whatever a Japanese student's goal, the good life beckons the moment he gets past the narrow entrance-examination gate. Since the accent is on rote memorization of facts, a student can always cram to pass a test and he has to be atrociously uninterested to flunk out. For rural youths, the excitement of living in Tokyo compensates for classroom tedium. Money is rarely a problem. A student can find board and room-the universities have few dorms-for as little as $30 a month. A curry-and-rice lunch costs 30 cents. He can meet his tuition...
...only 20, most of the rock jockeys are pushing 30. Their natural habitat is the "jock booth," where, surrounded by stacks of 45-r.p.m. records, they suck on lemons, spray their throats, turn the treble up and the bass down, and wail. During an average three-hour program, they cram in six five-minute newscasts, twelve station breaks, 35 records and 54 commercials...