Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start, why does he cram the sets so full? Courtiers buzz around by the dozens, trailing phrases of French and German. For Russians their faces are remarkably dull; compare them to the beautiful hordes of extras in a Dovshenko. And they get in the way. When Ophelia comes on singing "Hey, nonny nonny," she has to bull her way through a battalion of military types. One thinks of the brave USO girls visiting the front...
Medieval theologians who argued for years about the number of angels that could stand on the head of a pin never found a satisfactory answer. Contemporary scientists who are just as doggedly determined to see how much gadgetry they can cram into about the same amount of space have made remarkable progress. On a barely visible chip of silicon as small as one-twentieth of an inch square, they can now produce complex and virtually trouble-free electronic circuits containing more than 80 built-in transistors, diodes, resistors and capacitors...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Best of Everything was rated just about the worst of anything when it first attempted to cram Hope Lange, Suzy Parker, Martha Hyer and Joan Crawford into Rona Jaffe's bestselling novel about girls who get their jobs through the New York Times and their kicks from Modern Romances. Now that it's dated, it's too funny to miss...
Later that same month, a number of pacifists, armed with gas masks and sporting arm bands and placards protested against "the war mongering preaching" of Paul P. Cram '15, instructor in History, by picketing outside his classroom. Cram paid no attention to the protestors or their placards (including such poetic masterpieces as: Churchill's in a jam/No fault of Mr. Cram/But he must fight alone/Save democracy at home...
...then on April 18 a banner headline in the CRIMSON announced the start of the campaign to abolish that "organized vice racket," the tutoring schools. It seemed that between two-thirds and three-quarters of all undergraduates used the course notes obligingly sold by the "cram parlors" rather than going to the bother of taking their own. Further, the CRIMSON revealed that some of the schools had tried to bribe University officials in order to get class lists and other information...