Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skill that they lend significance to their product, and writers can do the same. In an age of literary civil engineers, when the multitudes try to write novels taller than the Sears Tower, White is a carpenter, rubbing his essays and, in this instance, sketches and poems, with 600-grade sandpaper till they are silk, till they are more than functional...
Harvard draws obsessive people by the hundreds. The average Harvard undergraduate seems distinguished by the fact that he is not average in at least one area; the area may be physics, grade-grubbing, writing, egomania or self-loathing. Most everyone here, for better or worse, developed a trait or interest in childhood that made him a little different...
...students like to beat Brown because Brown thinks it's as good, Princeton because Princeton acts like it's better, and Yale because that snotty kid down the street who always had scotch tape holding his big, black glasses together and built go-carts out of lego in third grade goes there. And only for Yale--if then--does Harvard go bonkers...
...more than six decades, American Seed Co. of Lancaster, Pa., provided thousands of youngsters with their first lessons in free enterprise. Grade school children scampered about their neighborhoods selling the firm's garden seeds for a chance to share in the profits and win prizes like bicycles and baseball mitts. But now American Seed has gone out of business, the victim of childhood corruption. Since 1975, some 400,000 young business people have sent away for the seeds but then pocketed all the sales receipts, instead of returning part of the money to the company as payment...
...long time, Brooklyn-born Pat Benatar thought she was going to be an opera singer. Her mother had been in the chorus at the New York City Opera, and their home resounded with classical music. In Lindenhurst, N.Y., little Patty started singing in the fourth grade, and by the age of twelve, it was obvious that she not only liked to sing, she really could sing. There was only one problem: she wanted to sing rock 'n' roll...