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...generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into the exam...
Edwards said the heat is usually turned on Sunday night so the building warms up by Monday morning, but the heat was turned on only an hour before the first exams Monday. He added that the heat will now remain turned on at night for the rest of exam period to keep the building warm...
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?"). Sulpher-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60 ("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...
Reagan named Clark a superior court judge in 1969, prompting a public uproar because Clark had dropped out of two colleges (Stanford and the University of Santa Clara) and out of Loyola Law School in 1955. He passed the bar exam only on his second try, yet Reagan promoted him twice more, to the California supreme court in 1972. As a justice, Clark was meticulous and efficient. Says a former law clerk: "He spent a lot of time streamlining the language in his opinions, to get rid of the 'thats' and 'whiches' and anything else superfluous...