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...they tell me to come back in a week and so I come back and sit in this empty classroom with the doors locked for six straight hours staring at that stupid question trying to figure out if maybe I'd gone crazy, zoned out. So they flunk me, but by that time I just couldn't see any point...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Lady Star Dust | 2/20/1974 | See Source »

...recently told an audience of law students: "We are not a trade association. We are not a union. We are out to improve justice and the administration of society. If you don't intend to work to improve the quality of justice, then I hope that you flunk your exams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Mr. Smith Comes to the A.B.A | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

...zoology and chemistry finals in his sleep. But in The Interpretation of Dreams, he noted a comforting aspect of the nagging nightmares: they seem to be experienced only by people who pass their exams, never by those who fail. If Freud was right, one consolation for college students who flunk today is that they will be spared recurring dreams of their failure tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Recurring Nightmares | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...wish you would flunk," she screams. "There might be some hope for you." He doesn't flunk. He gets As. They make...

Author: By Kevin A. Stafford, | Title: Bad Entertainment... | 10/18/1973 | See Source »

...choice of targets is virtually limitless--the other pre-meds who will deliberately tell you wrong information so you'll flunk an exam, the aesthetes who think talking politics is well, you know old boy, just a mite vulgar, the rock climbers and flower children who have experienced it all and the mindless future technocrats who actually care whether Scoop Jackson of Hubert Humphrey runs for president in '76. And this even without the war criminals and apologists--after all, Henry Kissinger was a Harvard...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: High School Isn't Over | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

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