Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to put a grade on somebody's finger-painting or feces-smearing," he said...
...Force sergeant, Matlovich grew up on military bases in such places as Charleston, S.C., Alaska and Guam. In 1963, after graduating from high school in England, he joined the Air Force. "I knew I was homosexual then," he says. "I had been since I was in the seventh grade...
...Twenty-five states, the District of Columbia and several territories have developed uniform guidelines for classroom instruction in the use of the metric system. Beginning in the fall of 1976, Illinois schoolchildren from kindergarten through Grade 6 will be taught both the standard English and the metric systems. In Grade 7 and above, the metric system will be used exclusively...
...time but noteworthy in hindsight. As a sex book without a single sex scene, it is a tame reminder of how things have changed since 1961. And as the story of a sex clinic conceived before the advent of Masters and Johnson, it is a fine instance of low-grade art that life so often shamelessly imitates...
...most primitive joy of the film is its vindictive morality. Rarely has a purer, more rigid and satisfying morality been preached to me since elementary school: If you follow all the directions of the firemen, you will get out alive. Just what I was told in third grade. A few innocent people get killed, for the sake of pathos, but basically, if you obey orders you'll be saved. Unless, of course, you're a Sinner. In this movie sin means, say, staying after work to have sex with your secretary. The connection between adultery and hellfire has never been...