Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burned out many of its lights and lives before it is old enough to vote. "The first thing I realized was how different it is to go to high school today," wrote Maureen Orth in a "Last Supplement" to the Whole Earth Catalog. "Acid trips in the seventh grade, sex in the eighth, the Viet Nam War a daily serial on TV since you were nine, parents and school worse than 'irrelevant'?meaningless. No wonder Jesus is making a great comeback." The death of authority brought the curse of uncertainty. As Thomas Farber writes in Tales...
...dean, Bok weathered two particularly harrowing confrontations with students on issues of grade reform and disciplinary policy, but he was visibly shaken when a group of radical Law students disrupted a faculty meeting last Spring to protest the disciplining of five black students involved in sit-ins at University Hall...
When the issue of grade reform reached a heated peak in 1969. Bok and a few other Law professors called each member of the faculty at home and arranged discussion groups with students about grading. It was during this same crisis that Bok, at 12:30 a.m., walked in on a "study-in" students were holding in the Law School Library to protest grading...
...Chicano's academic record while keeping in mind that in all likelihood the Chicano had not spoken English when he entered school, that the school in which he was enrolled was probably substandard, that he was probably economically impoverished, and that his parents had probably never gotten beyond grade school...
...through the literature of demonology discloses that he often negotiates with men but rudely possesses women. The Exorcist is about the possession of a young female, but it has nothing to do with literature. It is a pretentious, tasteless, abominably written, redundant pastiche of superficial theology, comic-book psychology, Grade C movie dialogue and Grade Z scatology. In short, The Exorcist will be a bestseller and almost certainly a drive-in movie...