Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president of the University of California takes his final exam every month," said Clark Kerr to a group of reporters last week. "I've taken lots of them and passed. This time I didn't." Indeed not. By a vote of 14 to 8, Cali fornia's board of regents had just de cided to dismiss Kerr after eight years as head of the nation's largest university...
Thoughts are errant during exam period. The worlds of fact and doctrine ("Birds cannot actually fly; they are merely prodigious leapers!') collide with the grim fantasies spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60c ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would...
...warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this exam period. Hell, no, I unicycle out to Revere Beach every morning...
...people interviewed for a TIME cover take it so ebulliently. Industrialist-Art Collector Norton Simon compared his sessions to a "threeday physical exam at a clinic. You know you'll be poked, probed and punctured, and you'd better tell all because they'll find out anyway." The late Author John Marquand told Reporter Ruth Mehrtens that the interviews were better than being psychoanalyzed. Oceanographer Jacques Yves Cousteau recalls with a shudder, and some slight exaggeration, that he was rarely alone for three months: "Your reporters followed me everywhere. Once I tried to hide in a motel...
...Exam period and the application season are a favorite time for browsing through such literature and thinking about The Future. A perusal of the two reports shows that...