Word: essay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Presently half a student's grade in Gov 98 depends on hid Junior Essay, a, paper written during four days in Reading Period and evaluated by a committee of examiners unconnected with the tutorial program. Thinking that this four-day exercise too closely resembles a final exam, the department has suggested that students simply choose a paper they have written during the year for their tutor and submit that to the committee...
...department admits that it uses the essay not for educational reasons but for the narrow aim of achieving a wide grade distribution. Tutors generally give favorable reports of their students, and the committee reads the papers to decide whose grades should be cut down to a B. Even though all the papers might be outstanding, the committee would clamp down on most students and "equalize" thier grades. Scaling down grades ignores the fact that capable students in an honors program are highly motivated by the weekly pressure of a face-to-face meeting with their tutors and by knowing...
Williams also hits some magnificent stretches of writing, for example when describing the gradual development of an Airplane jam from its sputtering beginning to exhilarating conclusion, or in his third essay on Dylan which is an expressionistic tour de force...
...high spot of any journalist's week is dealing with the biggest piece of news. After that, probably the greatest satisfaction is writing about unusual people who find themselves involved in some extraordinary situation-or see to it that they are so involved. As this week's Essay on "The Sad State of Eccentricity" points out, the grand old style of nonconformity has fallen on hard times. Still, no week passes in which journalism is not brightened by the views, habits and idiosyncrasies of people who are willing to question conventional wisdom...
...microphones to cover for radio and telly simultaneously-and to increase his fee to $22 per assignment. He later worked on network-wide documentaries and panel shows in London and spent a year as a CBS correspondent. His credits include a film report from Albania and an uneven essay on the "vulgarity" of Texas. In a preview of the sort of sharp commentary he delivered last week, he described Texas as "a land without style, a confused and chaotic society" obsessed with guns. Now he is also managing director of three suburban London weeklies acquired by his father...