Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice in the transfer process: HEW, in fact, will summarily assign eligible students to existing openings. Med schools rarely accept transfers anyway, since very few good students tend to drop out. Thus the schools, which A.A.M.C. says have doubled their enrollment in the past decade, will be forced to fit even more students into facilities already filled to capacity. More important, many of the foreign medical schools are considered inadequate by U.S. standards, and many Americans studying medicine there are likely to be rejects from U.S. schools, which last year took in only 15,613 first-year students...
There are, in addition, a good many arrogantly successful business types who fit firmly the wealthy alumnus stereotype that Harvard officials often claim no longer holds. According to alumni office polls, graduates approve wholeheartedly of today's Harvard--equal access admissions notwithstanding--but the dark wood paneling and a shot of Chivas bring out the more conservative opinions at these gatherings. These men freely castigate today's "youth," unaware of how much they share with the numerous pre-corporate leaders looking over business school catalogues in undergraduate dorms nearby...
...books, Gorey piles hackneyed literary convention upon hackneyed literary convention to reach a gruesome black-humor conclusion. Stylized drawings of upper crust twerps develop into tiny portraitures of weirdly haunted people. But this time the script does not fit the Gorey formula. Although everyone looks straight out of a Gorey story, you cannot sink your teeth into the paper-thin characters. And unlike his books, you cannot flip through this play. You just have to sit there, watching boring characters witlessly enacting a plot whose ending you already know...
...seems that the Food Services were recently bequeathed several million reams of top-quality 100 per cent rag content paper and have hired both a dead codfish and retired songstress Hildegard Knish (pronounced K'nish) to write their publicity releases. (Just how come the Harvard University Food Services saw fit to get into the one-page magazine business in the first place is totally beyond me.) Anyhow, it was all pretty noble when it started out (wasn't it called something humorous like "Between ME-N-U" --get it?--when it first appeared?): students--or at least what...
...amendment by Sen. Clairborne Pell (D-R.I.) would empower the Labor Department to exempt any occupations from the law that it sees fit...