Word: cribbing
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Superficial Felicity. The student who can sprinkle some real comprehension over his cepts has an unbeatable essay. The difficulty with this is that it requires the student to read rather than browse through the assigned books, and to attend lectures rather than crib the cept notes of a conscientious friend. And doing all of the assigned work leads to a dangerous temptation: the student may answer an exam question with original thoughts, not cepts. To the cept-conscious prof, this is evidence that the student is trying to cover up his loafing and his failure to learn his cepts...
...says that Jesus Christ, this carpenter's son, triumphed over death's dominion by his Resurrection, and through his teachings revealed the way to eternal salvation. Thus each year, with Christmas trees and carols, tinsel and toys, his followers commemorate the moving and gentle story of the crib in a Bethlehem stable. It is a celebration of eternity's intersection with time and of Christianity's living faith in the promise of Jesus: "Lo, I am with you always, to the close...
...film that established her and has almost forced the shape of her career was Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll, in which she lay in a crib sucking her thumb, a physically developed, mentally retarded 19-year-old symbol of unprotected sex. Its seduction scene-in a garden swing-is still discussed by old men on winter evenings. "It's amazing that Baby Doll is the one movie I've done that no one has forgotten." she says now. "I tried to get away into different parts, but I find that audiences want me as an image only...
...founded is led by a troika. Grandson H. F. (for Herbert Fisk) Johnson, 64, board chairman, directs marketing. Great-Grandson Samuel Curtis Johnson, 36, is executive vice president in charge of new products-and has been the obvious heir to the top job ever since he was in the crib. Finance is handled by Howard Merrill Packard, 54, the only non-Johnson ever to serve as president...
...INCONGRUOUS SPY, by John Le Carré. The first two thrillers by the author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold have been reissued in one volume. His first is a workmanlike crib on Josephine Tey; the second is about British intelligence, has some of the same characters as The Spy. Both are fine whodunits...