Word: cum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clichés describe a small part of L.A., but they are apt enough. The place does have eccentric glamour. The enormous HOLLYWOOD sign stuck on one of the Santa Monica Mountains is odd and funny. "Colonics," a regimen of recreational-cum-therapeutic enemas, is popular among regular people. On Sunset Boulevard nothing seems remarkable about the Professional Waiters School, and on Gloaming Drive in Beverly Hills, the only pedestrians are tanned joggers and dark-skinned servants. Los Angeles has more registered poodles (16,732) than any other city, and plenty of them are dyed the colors of jelly beans...
...none is more dreaded or reviled than the oral examination, the supposed summation of all that has gone before. Some students change entire plans of study just to avoid them. In the History and Literature department, an all-honors concentration, orals are required for high honors (magna or summa cum laude), no matter what one's academic standing...
...ALREADY prepped for improper judgements from what had happened to my thesis: my first reader begrudged me a cum plus, saying I didn't prove any of my points, I was a sexist, and had made too many typos. My second reader gave me a summa minus, saying that while there were flaws, chapters 2, 5 and 6 were terrific. So it was given to a third reader because of the discrepancy; she also awarded a summa minus, but said that by far the strongest chapters were numbers 3 and 4. With this foreknowledge of subjectivity and chance, I felt...
Born in New York City and raised in the Miami area, Stone is a cum laude graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School. Although not considered a heavyweight during his single Senate term, he was a personable and conscientious politician. He had a conservative voting record but, as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, was a vociferous advocate of the Panama Canal treaties. After working with Reagan as one of three Democrats on his transition team, Stone was defeated in his re-election bid in 1980 and joined the Washington office of a major law firm. Last year...
...story begins a Harvard senior named Wiley looks at the object of his lust and states, "To see her in sunlight was to see Marxism die." Naturally, when Wiley lures this apparition into his room and under his covers, it is the occasion for a summa cum laude display of erudition...