Word: exam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pause] Well, look, I'll get back to you, okay? On the exam thing. Meanwhile see what you can do about [inaudible...
...hits you that you no longer get worked up about which English professor screwed which class on which midterm exam, and you realize you're outside...
...look around now and see the same thing already happening in the Class of '76. Two weeks from next Wednesday, Yo Yo Ma will be sitting in Memorial Hall, writing an exam for Social Sciences 4, "Film and Anthropology," in the company of a few dozen of his classmates. On the other hand, last Sunday he was in Carnegie Hall, playing in a Brahms sextet before an audience of two thousand. Because Yo Yo already plays the cello better than almost anyone in the world, success is not going to bother him with struggling up through the ranks, trying...
...icemen will have to stay sharp during the exam break, because they face a powerful Boston University squad in the opening round of the Beanpot tourney, February...
Like the ever recycling figures who fall and rise through Finnegans Wake, James Joyce refuses to stay buried. A character bearing his name is currently cutting linguistic capers in the Broadway hit Travesties. The discovery of some exam papers Joyce wrote while seeking a teaching certificate in 1912 was recently headlined in the New York Times. Going on sale next week is a facsimile of the Ulysses manuscript (three volumes; Octagon Books). Price: $150. For a writer who labored half his life in seething obscurity, Joyce has achieved a renown that might sate even his massive Irish appetite for irony...