Word: grading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...near San Francisco, Madden heeded his father's advice to resist formal work as long as possible. (In fact, forever.) Earl Madden, an auto mechanic, knew from experience, "Once you take a job, that's it." In constant cahoots with his best pal at Our Lady of Perpetual Help grade school, the present Los Angeles Rams coach John Robinson, young Madden tried the pool halls and bowling alleys before settling on the caddie house as his preferred den of iniquity. There he learned about shuffling cards, pitching nickels and living life. He recalls, "I shagged balls for Ken Venturi...
...young as nine. Child Psychiatrist William Sonis of the University of Pennsylvania, who in a 1985 survey found that 6.5% of 1,000 students at a suburban Minnesota high school had SAD, says that too often "the symptoms are attributed to school-related issues, like the seventh- or tenth-grade slump." Or they are ascribed to behavior problems. "The most prevalent symptom among children is irritability," says Sonis. "Kids said they picked fights and they didn't know why." The clue that their problems are due to SAD: depression recurs year after year...
Holly began acting in the ninth grade because "the people who were involved in this drama stuff seemed like a pretty happening group. The teacher seemed real fun. So I signed up." After four years in the theater program at Carnegie-Mellon University, Hunter hit New York City. One day, hurrying to audition for a Beth Henley play, she met the author in a stalled elevator, and a few weeks later Henley signed Hunter to replace Mary Beth Hurt in Crimes of the Heart on Broadway. "She picks up a script of mine, and it becomes alive," says Henley. "Holly...
Another set peeled back to reveal the Silberius family's opulent living room, and there was the tree--with huge felt leaves, looking like something we made in first grade and definitely not from a forest. My friend turned to me and whispered, "Pretty tacky...
...skeptical when the people grading your papers are graduate students barely three years older than you? How can you not get skeptical when you get a better grade on a paper that you wrote the night before a week-long extension ends than one you work on for months? What all this shows is that quick creative insight based on few facts is the most effective and enjoyable means to get a point across...