Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squirm while watching the play and feel that hot blush starting on your neck, but--like the rest of the audience--you'll probably laugh as heartily at the smut as you did in fourth grade. But underneath the laughter, Cloud 9 has a squalid streak and leaves you feeling as though you might want to wash your mouth, or more appropriately your ears, out with soap...
Born in Trenton, the only child of a Sicilian immigrant, Scalia was raised in a household that was close, religious and intellectually challenging. His mother was a grade-school teacher, his father a professor of Italian literature. Scalia attended St. Francis Xavier High School, a Jesuit school in Manhattan, where he was an officer in the JROTC, directed the marching band - and played the title role in the school production of Macbeth. ("Don't let the ribbing get to you," he told the mortified younger boy playing Lady Macbeth, who still remembers this small act of kindness.) He tied...
...eighth grade, Sheehan--then an avid cyclist--started running track during the off-season, in hopes of building up strength. "I found that I was better at running than cycling," Sheehan says...
...student, and when they find out that I'm captain of the baseball team, they're very surprised. And then the guys on the baseball team were really surprised I was premed--they said the reason they kept me on the team was to bolster the team grade-point average...
...only the most directed and self-sufficient of students are able to maintain the drive that propelled them into the Yard four years ago. Other students find themselves unwilling to do their best work for courses for fear of rebuff; they know that they will receive largely the same grade in any case...