Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speaks the worst French I have ever heard, his eyes run, and he is not at all impressive." Montgomery, he thought, "was small, wonderfully conceited and the best soldier in this war." Harry Hopkins "was like a pilot fish for a shark [F.D.R.]," and King George "is just a grade above a moron, poor little fellow...
...deplores "the kind of '60s liberalism that involves pushing money after every problem." In education, he is against permissive systems that "teach kids algebra hi the third grade and remedial reading in the twelfth grade." On law and order: "Let's get back to the old-fashioned idea that an individual is responsible for his actions." On drugs: "If people want to get high, they should turn to meditation...
...Bernice Brown have always been somewhat awed by the single-minded zeal of then- only son. When the boy was in seventh grade and short for his age, he vigorously argued that he should be given hormone shots so that he would grow tall enough to dance with girls who had already sprouted. (The shots were denied him, but hi time he reached a height of 5' 10^".) Kathy, Jerry Brown's younger sister, watched sympathetically as her brother was raised in the penumbra of his father...
...have to get an idea I can write. If I were going to class here, and I were writing for a grade, which would mean my writing a novel, the I would pick two or three things if they satisfied the instructor, and write the best I were able to. But when you're on your own, when a writer's on his own, he's lucky if he can get one good idea. He writes only for himself, he's no longer writing for the faculty of a university. It takes a long time. It takes me longer than...
Carol S. Leff, teaching fellow in Government, said yesterday she received grade quotas last year for her section of Government 20, "Introduction to Comparative Government...