Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Currently, one of the most popular television shows among the grade school set is improbably a cartoon adventure series rather heavy-handidly depicting the battle between good and evil. At the end of each episode He-Man turns to the camera and says. "Today's lesson, kids, is that no matter how bad they are, everyone deserves a second chance," or whatever. The Cleavers never had to be so blatant--their familiar daily dramas spoke for themselves. John R. Boughman
When Rosalynn was twelve years old, a Plains merchant offered a $5 prize for the seventh-grade student with the highest yearly average. "I could not let up on myself," she remembers. "I had to win it." And she did. In 1980, when a campaign aide praised her husband for not seeming bitter about his loss to Reagan, she retorted: "I'm bitter enough for the both...
...adds, "For these students to be able to identify with Harvard as a premium world institution is very important. It is not the content of the courses, but the knowledge that they as Third World students can come to one of the premium world institutions and make the grade...
Stein has long rated high with his colleagues, who elected him president of the District of Columbia Bar in 1982 (among his qualifications for the honor, Stein whimsically listed his having won a grade-school marble championship). A lifelong Washingtonian, he is one of the capital's wealthiest private attorneys (although he normally takes a bus to the office). Stein, who is so apolitical that he has never registered to vote, successfully defended Attorney Kenneth Parkinson in the Watergate conspiracy trial. But he failed to persuade a different jury that Dwight Chapin, Richard Nixon's appointments secretary...
...have spent God knows how many unproductive hours asking myself if I was really put on this earth to write about the likes of Richard Nixon and Joe McCarthy." A bit too harsh a verdict; but then Rovere did not come to writing easily. He flunked the first grade in his Brooklyn elementary school, was diagnosed a slow learner and never thought about making words his life's work until a high school football injury gave him a long stretch of hospital time for reading. After an uncomfortable journalistic debut as a subeditor on that now defunct "independent" Communist...