Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cliffies shed their ear muffs this spring, they will expose themselves to a dread disease which has become an annual epidemic in Radcliffe yard. The illness causes a temporary insanity, an overwhelming urge to mutilate one's own body. Girls usually satisfy this masochistic drive by puncturing the lobes of both their ears...
Britain's "eleven-plus exam," an IQ measurement plus tests in arithmetic and English composition, was set up in 1944 as the fairest way to channel children into state secondary schools geared to their abilities. But it has turned out to be the infamous instru ment that with dread finality determines whether a child aged 10½ to 11½ is to be high or low in Britain's totemistic society, whether he gets topflight pre-university training or a quick go at a lesser school...
Adult Sixth-Graders. Most Americans dread math because teachers have long used strong-arm drills to mask their own ignorance of the subject; even now more than half the states do not require a single college math course for certified elementary schoolteachers. Taught rote computation, children have usually lost all curiosity in the process. As an instance, most kids must still wait for third grade to tackle such "carrying" problems as 39 plus 3, even though first-graders can easily do it by counting 40, 41, 42 on their fingers...
This dying light is marvelously mirrored in the smoky anguish of Alec Guinness' eyes, and it gives him the look of a man ravaged by the pain of being and the dread of not being. Perfectly miming every state of alcoholic disequilibrium, Guinness does a dance of death at ever-varying tempos. It can be antic, as when he pats the bottom of an Old Howard burlesque stripper in Boston, and reminds her that he will be reading his poems at Radcliffe. It can be a gallant agony of slow motion, as he disciplines drunken legs to march...
...vision of lamentation and gnashing of teeth, of men who said sleep, sleep, but got no sleep, of fear and dread, of nameless horrors, for verily it was the examinations period and the poor damned souls had no CRIMSON to assuage their miseries, banish their grief, or even to wrap their fish and cover their nakedness (see page one) except for Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays...