Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what you will against Hitler, but he could have taught producer Lew Grade and director Franklin J. Schaffner a thing or two about captivating an audience. He would have told them that manipulation requires careful pacing, a dash of wit, and a lot of fervor. You've got to work and keep working, he would have said--you can't be sluggish or cowardly. It's all right to be simplistic and to prey upon people's most basic fears and desires, and it helps to be as perverse and merciless as possible, but you've got to have charisma...
Undergraduate teaching assistants are not unusual at harvard: however, NS 110 is unique in that its teaching assistants actually lead tehir own sections and grade homework without any direct supervision from a graduate student or untenured professor...
...five courses that appear to have earned their popularity, at least in part, by remaining less than a threat to a student's grade-point average are: Humanities 9a, "Oral and Early Literature"; Natural Sciences 110, "Automatic Computing"; Social Sciences 160, "Nonverbal Communication"; Fine Arts 13, "Introduction to the History of Art" (generally considered a gut only when taken pass/fail); and Astronomy 8, "Cosmic Evolution...
...about Harvard as a liberal/radical enclave, he could at least do it with virulence (a la Joe McCarthy's speech about "the Kremlin on the Charles") or with wit and style (a la William F. Buckley's God and Man at Yale). Instead, he loads us down with sixth--grade platitudes and an embarassing series of distortions...
LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Achieved a 3.9 grade point average last spring semester at Cornell, receiving A's in Home Economics 102--Cooking ("Meals for Heels"), Food Management 205 ("Beefsteak"), and Botany 35--Corngrowing ("Stalks for Jocks...