Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pope's position on doctrine is likely to please the Curia, which could use some cheering up. As a senior Vatican prelate conceded, John Paul's election "was like a report card with a flunking grade for the Curia." Seeking to salve bruised Curial egos, the Pope observed in a midweek speech to the Cardinals about the Curia and the Vatican: "It is not difficult to recognize our inexperience in so delicate a sector of church life. We promise to treasure the suggestions that will come to us from our worthy co-workers." One of his first acts...
...more influenced by the things I'd like to do." Faculty members urge parents to take a hands-off attitude. "You must be supportive but not too directive," Arts and Sciences Dean Kenneth Clark told one assembly. "It's the student who's got to earn the grade and live with success or failure...
...There's a void in the motion picture world for ... whatever this is," smiles the movie's Executive Producer Martin Starger, U.S. representative of British Producer Sir Lew Grade. Just what it will be is hard to pin down: maybe something like Punch and Judy done according to Mad Magazine...
...fictional Faber College in 1962, presents quite another picture. The film's so-called animals-the inhabitants of Faber's most disreputable fraternity house-are a filthy, outrageous lot. They guzzle and spit beer, drive motorcycles indoors, dump Fizzies in the school swimming pool, pile up 1.2 grade-point averages on their "permanent records" and wreck the homecoming parade. Here, at long last, are movie characters who embody the true spirit of American higher education...
...disclaimers, the role is clearly modeled on the late Martha Mitchell. Instead of Attorney General John Mitchell, we have Crispin Stewart, a powerful Pennsylvania senator with Presidential ambitions. The Mitchells' young daughter, Martha, has been turned into Alice, a grade school science teacher in her 20s. The last character in the play, Dave Castle, is the senator's cool, climbing, clean-cut legal aide, not too unlike John Dean...