Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tatrallyay was born in Hungary in 1949. Under the communist regime life was difficult for his family. "We were just being constantly hassled by the government. They told my father that if he didn't cooperate with the government, his children wouldn't get past the eighth grade," he said...
...previous years, freshman applicants were interviewed by staff members who turned in written comments and a "grade" for roommate groups interviewed. This year, while the grading system has been dropped and the interviews explained as a chance, primarily, for the freshmen to ask questions, interviewers have asked about applicants' activities and interests...
...observer. "We love Chairman Mao," is chalked on the board, and below this are the lines: "Our great leader . . . the red sun ... in our hearts . . . love . . . best . . . work for . . . think of . . .be loyal to." On the desks are the English books opened to Lesson I for the eighth grade. "A long, long life to Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao, you are the red sun in our hearts. We are sun flowers. Sun flowers always face the red sun. We think of you day and night. We wish you a long life...
...proceedings open with a suitably clever premise-grade-A Alec Guinness, actually. Four respectable citizens, pillars of a Fairfield County country club, have lost their upper-tax-bracket jobs during the present little economic adjustment. They make up the champagne casualties - the affluent walking wounded. Sandy Campbell is an ex-vice president of a mutual fund, shot down with the market. Jack Carmody is an ex-ad-agency ace, gone up in smoke with his TV cigarette accounts. Sam Deitsch is a dress manufacturer who laid it on the hemline for the midi. Harry Price is all the has-beens...
...MOTHER teaches third grade in a ghetto grammar school on Chicago's South Side. As urban school systems have crumbled in recent years, teachers such as she have been increasingly berated. They have been charged from afar with destroying the minds of ghetto children, with arrogance and racism in the classroom, with a cynical desire merely to extract a paycheck from their job until they can transfer to a "better" school. They are an easy target...