Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government faculty voted Monday to abolish the Gov 98 junior essay exam beginning next year. There will be no change in procedure this year. Francis G. Hutchins '60, head tutor, said yesterday...
Abolishment of the four-day take-home essay will mean that a student's tutor will determine his tutorial grade. Currently half of the grade is based on the essay, which is marked by a committee of professors...
...Both the students and the teaching fellows voted overwhelmingly to have Gov 98 graded exclusively by the tutor and to abolish the present essay exam procedure," Hutchins said. Approximately 10 per cent of the concentrators and 50 per cent of the tutors came to the meetings...
...tasting novels (Myra Breckinridge) and bland-tasting plays (Visit to a Small Planet) is just the start for Vidal. He keeps busy as an opinion maker, staging shoot-outs with William Buckley on TV and churning out some of the liveliest doomsday journalism ever, mostly in today's essay form, the book review...
...second and more recent misdirection of the American left came with the defection of the intellectuals following the Second World War. In a long essay dealing with the history of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom, Lasch attempts to show how the sterility and lack of ideas which characterized American politics in the fifties can be traced to the enlistment of the liberal intellectuals into the Cold War struggle. During a period when they should have been formulating alternatives to the Cold War and the moratorium on domestic political controversy which accompanied it, the liberal intellectuals were allowing themselves...