Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senile relative ramble on like this would be considered an act of charity almost above and beyond the call of duty, but to buy a book full of these uninteresting memories from a stranger is sheer lunacy. They are written as simply and as poorly as first-grade primers: Rooney admits. "I dislike retyping a piece to correct mistakes or rearrange paragraphs...
Ozment said yesterday that the proposed changes would eliminate "manipulation of courses around the old General Education requirements and the two-thirds rules," and would base degrees on grade point averages...
...everyone else." Student recruiters must convince other Indians that they can thrive at a prestigious college in the East. When Fines toured the country to recruit for Harvard, one school asked her to give a little speech. The teacher then turned to the class and told the students to grade Fines' enunciation...
...Harvard's Indian students, college means escape from the backwaters of the reservation. Tsosie, Fines Roubideaux, and Gawboy stress that their studies mean freedom from oppression and stereotypes. Tsosie says that of the 120 Indians who graduated from eight grade in his town, only eight made it through High School, and two got into college. He is the only one who will graduate...
...story of Jake Rubin (played with starched-collar sobriety by Peter Riegert) is straight out of a grade-B musical bio. Jake goes to work as a waiter but is soon writing songs for a gruff but good-hearted music publisher (Stubby Kaye). Eventually he is the toast of Broadway, rubbing shoulders with Flo Ziegfeld and wooing a nightclub singer (Ann Jillian) whom he marries and makes a star. "When I first saw the Statue of Liberty," he tells her, "I thought it was the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen. But I hadn't seen...