Word: flunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uproar, sick at heart of students yelling "nigger bastard," faculty wives started a telephone chain, got 68 husbands to patrol the campus at night to cool hotheads. The chemistry department threatened to quit in a body. Teachers were tempted to give rugged daily tests to pacify rebels, and to flunk prime offenders, but both ideas were rejected on the ground that moral, not academic, pressure is the right approach. Now the faculty committee of nine meets daily to read student fever, assigns night patrols accordingly, and encourages classroom lectures on law and order...
...general, Watson said, he can predict within five or ten the number of upperclassmen needing rooms, taking into account students who drop out, flunk out, get married, return from leaves or stay for a fourth year of study after graduating in three under the advanced standing program...
...ghastly-all girls, and that's unhealthy"), then on to Vassar. A sophisticated delinquent, she was one Vassar girl who never bought a bicycle, preferring to steal them instead. Unprepared for an exam, she filled her blue book with drawings and handed it in. The college refused to flunk her. gave her a makeup exam instead. After two years she went off to Paris, where she studied French and learned beaux' arts...
Integers of Uncertainty. The Rev. Theodore Gill, president of Presbyterian San Francisco Theological Seminary, approves Dr. Bonnell's rebuke to the "gloomy guses, who seem to assume that our shakiness will shatter the church and that our failures will flunk God." But he notes that "Dr. Bonnell is ending a long and very distinguished parish ministry. He is positive and hopeful about where his generation comes out, and about the head start it has given to those who now carry on. To those now carrying on, however, Dr. Bonnell's impressive sum of achievements may look more like...
Important are the delinquents, who, like the junior executives, take short cuts to glamour, and help staff "the integral whole of politics-and-rackets," thus forming an alliance against "the good boys who naively try to make something of themselves." Also in the room are the flunk-outs (the "ambivalently wished-for station of Bums"), the Beat Generation whose "onslaughts on the Air-Conditioned nightmare...sound very much like the griping of soldiers who do not intend to mutiny"), the Angry Young Men (who attack the machine itself), French "existential youth" (saying "no exit"), and finally, the hipster (who "contents...