Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their own strangeness that isolates them from the world. This dark side of writing is introduced in the person of Albert Vetch, a hack horror writer whose suicide Grady witnessed as a child. Vetch floats over the book as a symbol of the true artist, the estate to which Grade aspires: "He was the first real writer I knew, because he was the first to have the midnight disease; to have the rocking chair and the faithful bottle of bourbon and the staring eye, lucid with insomnia even in the daytime...
...introduction to George Bernard Shaw was in 10th grade, when we read Pygmalion in English class. After studying the play, we were treated to a student matinee performance at the roundabout Theatre in New York city. When Higgins exploded with "Liza, you impudent slut!" a good friend of mine with overlarge eyeballs and a frightening smile cackled madly with a demonic guffaw...
...came home from school that Friday fifth grade afternoon, excited beyond belief...
...young English professor named Malcolm Woodfield. His tastes ran to whips and riding crops, she told Philadelphia magazine, and when she tried to get out of the relationship, the professor bullied her into continuing. She need not worry about flunking his course, she recalls his saying, because "your grade is not based on your work anyway...
Perhaps on even darker note, a handful ofstudents who failed to produce their theses by 5p.m. faced the grim reality of a grade reduction...