Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question you'd ask someone was 'Do you like The Beatles?' If they said no, you had nothing in common." The background music is very loud. "All My Loving" floats over the audience in waves, and Phyllis and Melinda are euphoric. "God, do you remember," says Melinda, "In sixth grade, you wrote a letter to The Beatles saying how we all loved them, and we all signed it. We became friends over The Beatles...
...their Neptune home to support Jack and his two much-older sisters. The business thrived, and the family moved to a bigger place. His sister June left home when Nicholson was four to be an Earl Carroll showgirl in Miami. Jack, bright and funny in school, skipped a grade. He made his unofficial show-biz debut at ten on the stage of Roosevelt Grammar School singing Managua Nicaragua...
...amazed at how wonderfully articulate our third, fourth-and fifth-grade children have become. Isn't it a tribute to the quality of the education they are receiving that they can already comprehend such descriptive characterizations as "truly malevolent, undependable, untrustworthy, yet powerful and dangerous...
...many musicals are there without a single weak song? This is one of them--with a dozen and a half numbers that rate A's and B's in anyone's grade book. Porter wrote his own witty lyrics, too, full of hilariously clever rhymes...
...relations helped win him the managing editorship of Foreign Policy magazine, a small (circ. 12,000) but increasingly influential quarterly with an eye for such lively, sometimes irreverent details as Columbia Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski's recent report card on the Nixon Administration's foreign policy (overall 1974 grade C+, compared with...