Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Course Assistant. It was Bunny Largess, Visiting Professor of Half-Truths, who formulated the now-famous rule on "choosing a course assistant." In Bunny's own words, "Make sure he is cruder, more reactionary, and basically less pleasant than even you are. Then give him a free hand." It is also important that the assistant be totally inept as a lecturer (ideally he should drool as well as lisp), and that he cast a favorable light on your physical appearance. [In the event that your academic credentials are likewise open to question, be careful to pick an assistant with ones...
...course, there are actually two plays on the Quincy House dining room stage these nights, but each one is there in fragments--half of the first (It's Called the Sugar Plum) and a third of the second (The Indian Wants the Bronx). You might want to check my mathematics, but I think that comes out to five-sixths...
...while Miss Schuck keeps up her half of Sugar Plum, the other and more important half just isn't there. The boy she meets is at the heart of Horovitz's piece; here is a kid who wants to be sensitive, wants to be a poet, wants to be in love. True, he is awkward and amusing (He writes poetry he does not understand, paraphrased from Zen poets), but he is also a human being. As performed by David Pollock, though, he is a silly comic prop--a cardboard version of Art Carney's Ed Norton characterization...
Pantagleize, subtitled "A Farce to Make You Sad," gets its name from the central character, a half-philosopher, half-clown unwittingly involved with a cell of revolutionaries who take him for their leader. Pantagleize falls in love with a young girl who is one of the leaders of the revolution, but she is killed by the police. Eventually the revolutionaries are all caught and executed. Pantagleize too is shot: he dies like a marionette, uncomplaining, manipulated to the very end by forces he never could understand...
...kids aren't uneducable," McCoy said, "they're the victims of uncommitted teachers and 'separate but equal' facilities." He said there are 9000 students and only eight schools in Ocean Hill-Brownsville. "These children are two and one half years behind white students of comparable grade-level. Many of them still cannot read or write in the 7th grade," he said...