Word: graded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...competitive education market, a lucrative commodity like a grade A reputation is nothing to sneeze at. So officials at Harvard--the J.P. Morgan of "big name" brokers--were doling out "no comments" and jeremiads about secrecy this week when asked for response to the sharply critical, would-be-confidential 1976 report of the Ovberseers' visiting committee on the shaky Graduate School of Design...
What wasn't part of his schedule was work, as in academics. Throughout high school--which ends after 11th grade in Quebec--and a two-year junior college stint, Desulniers ate, slept and played squash (two out of three isn't bad), usually playing up to five matches a week. "Last spring, in fact," he said between bites of a tunaburger, "I took the second semester off, strung racquets and played squash...
When I was a kid, one of my biggest thrills--ranking close to when I first "made out" in a choir loft in sixth grade--was the first time I got my name in the Los Angeles Times sports page. Me on the same page as Jerry West. Heaven. It was a box score for a 7th grade basketball tournament typed in the microscopic print developed especially for insurance policies. But who cared; I was young and had sharp eyes and anyway there it was, "Baggott...
...different show every night it plays. The rotating cast members are all thirty-ish people-next-door types--versatile, and stocked with every improvisational trick in the book. One night last week, the actress near the top of the pile played, among other things, Liv Ullman, a second-grade teacher, a cabinet member, a sex fiend, and Pittsburgh, all in two hours. The next night, I hear, she played Monty Hall, Karen Quinlan, and Elizabeth, New Jersey simultaneously. Wouldn't bet against...
...while some students fumed over the situation, many remained indifferent. "I just got my usual low grade," one unidentified member of the course said