Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pass as straight--we know what to say, how to smile and how to dress. We can slip in and out from subculture to mainstream and back again because we want to be in that sorority or that Finals Club. We sacrifice radical politics for a grade, a degree, a fellowship or a career...
...passages. But neither lead is ultimately compelling as a character or performer. And many of the choral members are simply liabilities to the production--their varying quality of vocal contributions fail to outweigh the ridiculous mugging and noise-making which someone apparently considered lively or endearing. In a fourth-grade production, such bounding and gasping might be cute, but here at Harvard, where great dramatic and musical talent abounds, and in Purcell's lovely setting of a great tragedy, these can only appear as lapses of taste...
...also suggested that the grade required for satisfying a foreign language requirement could be increased from...
...sound of hundreds of frantically flipping pages is often heard in a classroom just after a paper or midterm is returned, as students search for that single letter that can make or break their grade. But as the pages fly, the comments that the professor (or, more often, the Teaching Fellow) has written so lovingly in the margins are, shall we say, marginalized...
...Fortier testified under a plea agreement granting him immunity from prosecution. He plead guilty to receiving stolen weapons and will be sentenced after the prosecutors in Nichols' case grade his performance on the witness stand...