Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Georgia Tech, because it mainly trains engineers, has never had a chapter. ΦBK guidelines also indicate that new members rank in the top tenth of their class, a standard that made Bryn Mawr refuse a chapter on grounds that all Bryn Mawr women are academically elite. The grade inflation that began in the late '60s has made it difficult to distinguish the brilliant from the merely bright. Many college chapters, including Harvard's, now examine the records of candidates to be sure their good grades were not garnered in too many "gut" courses...
...maybe nothing. London Weekend Television Ltd., which ordered 13 Carson shows, and has since signed up for 13 more, is flying directly against heavy weather from both viewers and reviewers. Michael Grade, director of programs for L.W.T., says he chose to start running the Tonight show eleven weeks ago because "American TV is extremely popular. The critics ask us why we put on so much American rubbish, but what they hate the public loves...
Statistics do not necessarily bear out this conclusion. Up against weekly Saturday-night competition of soccer highlight and a drama on the BBC, Carson "has averaged a 36% share of the viewing audience," by Grade's reckoning. But Britain's Broadcasters' Audience Research Board lists the top ten programs on each channel. Tonight has not joined the roll call. It seems for once that the viewing public may be speaking as one with the critics...
...defensive, Director Grade-nephew of the impresario Lord Grade-told Carson and his staff that he was "delighted" with the first shows. Grade also said that "Carson seemed a bit hurt that the U.S. papers picked up the worst quotes in the papers here" and, for a more moderate view, directed the curious to a Sunday Times column by TV Critic Russell Davies. That was largely an act of existential futility, like trying to hide from a blizzard inside a freezer. Davies wrote that the premiere Tonight show "had catastrophically equated our national tastes with those of Benny Hill," then...
Meantime, Michael Grade is leaving to "go to work for Lear." This does not mean that he is auditioning for the Royal Shakespeare Company, however, only that he is becoming president of Norman Lear's TV production company in California. This will put him an ocean away from Sweet Fanny, but within hailing distance of Burbank, allowing him to watch the Tonight show five times a week...