Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University of Southern California, for example, only 60% of the undergraduate students take advantage of their option to be marked on a pass/fail basis. "We have students who are more conservative now," explains Boston University's Dean Blaustein. "They have had pass/fail grading in high school and grammar school, and they are tired of it. They want something to help them get to grad school...
...have been phrased more discreetly, to say the least. "My new circumstances," went the message, "will no doubt enable you to get even greater benefits from your association with Terry Brokerage Co. than you have heretofore." With his case before the board of ethics, Terry weakly protested that "my grammar used to be better until I began meeting with the press." Shortly afterward, he withdrew his nomination...
Barbara Hickey, a mother of six school-age children, has one of the most politically well-known names in North Cambridge. She says that more attention should be paid to the grammar schools because they are in deplorable physical condition...
...Britain's highly stratified educational system, blacks are a rarity in the college-bound track. Only 500 of the 200,000 West Indians enrolled in British schools are in grammar schools, the more academically advanced of Britain's two types of public secondary schools. Five times as many--2500--are in Educational Subnormal Schools, the large majority of the students misplaced...
Criticizing Theodorakis' music is like carping at the grammar of Tom Paine. As a youthful product of music conservatories in Athens and Paris, Theodorakis, a lawyer's son, was accomplished enough to write a symphony that could pass as minor Shostakovich. In the years after World War II, he aligned himself with the Communist partisans fighting the Greek monarchy and drew his first jail term. He decided that his real medium was the laiki moussiki (serious pop) central to the everyday lives of the Greek working classes...