Word: examing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lucy Manzi, assistant librarian and head of the reserve section, said yesterday that many more books than the 300 stolen last year were missing during reading and exam periods...
...authors, Harvard Social Psychologist Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson, former principal of South San Francisco's Spruce School. They told the teachers that a new test could predict which slow-learning students were likely to "show an unusual forward spurt of academic and intellectual functioning." The exam, actually a routine but unfamiliar intelligence test, was given to all pupils. Teachers were then told which students had displayed a high potential for improvement. The names were actually drawn...
...begin with, each candidate is asked to write a brief autobiography specifically aimed at revealing emotional instability. He then takes a psychological sentence-completion test and an exam known as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. If his responses raise any doubts about him, the candidate must go before a board of three psychiatrists. About 40% of the applicants each year are rejected because of either the psychological tests or a past record of instability turned up in a background check. At the police academy, the new recruit takes the California Test of Mental Maturity, the Watson-Glaser Judgmental Test...
Detroit had its own test prepared. It is a 100-question exam that Medical Director Dr. George Moriarty says sifts out "emotional instability, stress and strain, sadistic inclinations, those not really interested in a police career, borderline cases and homos." In Cincinnati, groups of ten police applicants at a time take part in two-hour bull sessions on such topics as homosexuality and minority groups. Psychologists listen in, and observe their every move...
Everything is presented in fits and starts, sputters without sparks, unreeling like a Krapp's last tape of random memories. Themes are developed capriciously, then dropped completely like essay answers in a sophomore's exam book. Nor is there a single plot line snaking toward a large revelation. Worthington, for example, is obviously by death obsessed, but he is far too thin-blooded ever to go gently raging toward that good twilight...