Word: exam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play begins with Marler ambling on stage and announcing casually that he is going to talk about his recent life. His preoccupation has been his impending oral exam in English, which would test all of his knowledge about literature. The strain of this make-or-break test induced constant nausea and what he calls "social phobia," a fear of performing in social situations. Things were only made worse by roommate Oswald, an anti-social computer programmer with a bad habit of urinating in a glass jar in various parts of the apartment. Oswald is both comic relief and a warning...
Sushant Srinivasan '98 said he was on his wayback from a chemistry exam yesterday morning whena friend told him that he and the other 13 membersof his blocking group had been assigned to AdamsHouse...
...kind of young person in Japan: otaku, which translates as obsessed to the point of being asocial, almost communally autistic. The word describes a whole generation of children for whom family life barely exists: father is always at work, and child is at cram school, preparing for the next exam. The father often does it because he remembers Japan just after the war--the desolation and the deprivation--and believes only money and success can assuage that pain. The child does it because society says he must...
Dining Services Director Michael P. Berry saidhe's not sure that he "buys" the stories of thedining hall checkers past, who supposedly knewevery student's birthday and exam schedule...
...difficult enough for victims to even admit that they have been raped, let alone have to wait for hours in an emergency room before being rushed through the assembly line for an exam," Weld said. "The SANE program will give victims who are sexually violated the supportive environment they need to deal with the trauma of rape...