Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps imagine yourself in grade school, when you took eager delight in asking your teacher to define "adultery" or "orgasm." This movie is slightly less mature in its earnestness over only marginally dirty words. Or perhaps move up to high school, when even elementary literary explications might have still sounded somewhat profound. Now imagine that elementary, lecturing tone describing what's obvious to you about Mr. Joyce, and you have James Joyce's Women...
REMEMBER IN FIFTH GRADE how you were taught to respect and revere the president, the Congress and the Supreme Court? Well, Laurence H. Tribe '62, Law School professor and Supreme Court mogul, hasn't forgotten those lessons...
...given the exigencies of moral rectitude and appeals to what the public wants--and these days, it seems, that's conservatives--it is a rare Senate and President that will look to the future, much less to their fifth grade civics lessons...
...have Actress Kate Capshaw take off accidentally and become the first American woman to take charge of a space-shuttle mission. Capshaw, who traipsed dizzily in and out of the Temple of Doom with Indiana Jones, confesses that "before this movie, I was unaware of space except for in grade school." The actress has been coached on the set by no less an expert than Sally Ride, America's pioneer woman in space. "She's been like a friendly consultant," Capshaw says, and communicated particularly "the determination, the fears and the passions" of astronauts. Ride thinks that one kind...
...panel of university presidents from the National Collegiate Athletic Association unanimously recommended a modified version of a measure called Proposal 48. The rule, scheduled to take effect in August 1986, would require freshman athletes at the major sports schools to enter with SATs of 700 and a grade-point average of 2.0 in real courses. The presidents' commission is seeking to amend the standard to allow a player with grades over 2.0 to score under 700 on the SATs, and vice versa, to accommodate students who test poorly. Eight days later the board of governors of the University of North...