Word: ghosting
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...seat of individuality, which had long been cultivated in the world of clergymen, gradually spread, from the 11th to the 17th century, until eventually it gained almost universal acceptance. This new eschatology caused the word death to be replaced by trite circumlocutions such as 'he gave up the ghost' or 'God has his soul...
Dying of cancer at 36, Byron's daughter Ada (Lindsay Crouse) conjures up the ghost of her father to justify his life. The poet (William Hurt) discourses on incest with his half sister, bisexual promiscuity and sodomy, all with disconcerting jollity. Justly praised for his film work in Altered States and Eyewitness, Hurt has scant headroom in this bombette of a play to do more than parade his grand good looks. Crouse fetchingly adorns the evening with passion and perspicuity...
...require students to bring to a scheduled conference every book and article used in a term paper. If students know they must sit at the professor's elbow for a 15-minute random check of the accuracy and honesty of references, the paper mills will not have a ghost of a chance...
Caldwell is willing to sacrifice some of the Shakespeare text for pageantry and graphic effects. The guests at the feast where Banquo's ghost appears are seated on one side of a long refectory table resembling the one in Da Vinci's The Last Supper, thus carrying resonances of sacrilege...
...most colleges, students are failed forthwith when caught submitting ghost work as their own. But few are caught. Only a handful of states (including Maryland and Pennsylvania) have specifically outlawed campus ghostwriting for profit. New York has one of the toughest laws, threatening fines and jail terms of up to 90 days for ghostwriters who help college students with assignments. So far officials have found the law difficult to enforce. New York prosecutors first won a court injunction against Collegiate Research Systems Inc., the target of last week's raid, in 1978. Company President John Magee, 29, responded with...