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...argued that under the option, professors would have seen enough of a student's work to be able to detect "any trend of improvement" demonstrated by a student who didn't attend a final...

Author: By Paul A. Englemayer, | Title: CUE Tables Nagy's Proposal Changing Make-Up Test Policy | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

FORTUNATELY, the Foundation has no name. It will not be a "Third World" Foundation because the University smells separatism in that label--for once agreeing with many Black students who detect dangerous ambiguity in a term that places so many cultures in one neat group. The Foundation needs to emphasize the uniqueness of each culture--the proposal seems to understand this...

Author: By Eve M. Troutt, | Title: In Search of a Voice | 2/7/1981 | See Source »

...grueling of exercises only to have training compressed into a minute and a half? Those who don't row crew at this school, those who watch their roommates tumble out of bed at 6 a.m. in the middle of winter for a brisk jog, those who can't help detect a rower's inexplicable calm during reading period, ask this question. After all, rowers have their daily workout, their daily dose...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Moments to Remember for a Crimson Devotee | 1/28/1981 | See Source »

...pair agree on almost everything, which often leads to the confused comment: "I read it in 'Ann Landers'-or was it 'Dear Abby'?" Some connoisseurs think they can detect a difference. When the Modesto Bee (circ. 65,490) asked its readers last October to vote on which column to run, Landers won by a landslide, 837 to 97. But most readers-and editors -agree with Austin American-Statesman (circ. 128,093) Managing Editor Jeff Bruce, whose paper, like many others, carries both columns. Says he: "I suspect most readers cannot tell one from the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Advice for the Lonely Hearts | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...ever. This is not easy, given his spectacular career. So he dwells whenever possible on failure. He finds in two of his early novels "a badness beyond the power of criticism properly to evoke." He studies himself as a beginning writer and concludes: "I am not sure that I detect much promise in his work." He characterizes his low-echelon work with the British Secret Service during World War II as "futile." Occasionally, he has to confront the specter of one of his triumphs. He does so suspiciously: "The Heart of the Matter was a success in the great vulgar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventures in Greeneland | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

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