Word: handed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then why did our teachers put such an exaggerated emphasis on our getting to school exactly on time? Why was cheating on exams so fanatically discouraged even though a student writing an examination is no longer in a position to increase his store of knowledge on the subject at hand? Why was such a premium placed on competitiveness, and why were the most creative, most imaginative children always the most heavily penalized? As for the assertion that most of what is learned in school is necessary for later life, how then are we to explain the obvious fact that people...
...newspapers of Boston at that time also took to editorializing about the incident. The Boston Courier, which was the paper read by those of the Federalist or Whig disposition, stated its whole-hearted agreement with President Quincy and the Gov- ernment of the University. On the other hand, the Boston Transcript, a Jacksonian paper edited by several recent graduates, put their sympathies with the students. "We have just heard of a new act of the wise men who guide the councils of our Alma Mater. . . ," the Transcript stated, "which threatens to ruin that ancient Institution...
...tennis court, but also spent one noontime driving Mrs. Kennedy to school to pick up her son Christopher, and another at Georgetown University Hospital, where Courtney Kennedy was having stitches removed from a wound suffered while skiing. A Washington Post columnist reported that Gorey was even spotted, notebook in hand, recording every splash one morning while Ethel bathed her eleventh child, Rory. Not so, says Gorey. He never carried a notebook into the bathroom...
...incur her wrath ?as another McCarthy, Senator Eugene, learned when he and Bobby became rivals for the Democratic nomination. Encountering Ethel at one point during the campaign, McCarthy leaned down as usual to kiss her cheek. He should have known better. "Hello, Gene," said Ethel icily, extending her hand...
...garrulous. The non-hero is another of those nobodies who do nothing. The reader first meets him as a child playing God with potato bugs, and gradually watches him emerge pretty much as a bugged vegetable himself. In a series of widely spaced vignettes, portrayed as through a wobbly hand-held camera, he attends his father's funeral, makes desultory love to a nondescript girl in a hotel room, gets married, has a son, and finally dies. In between, he takes long walks, smokes endless cigarettes, compiles lists, uninventively takes inventories, floats cosmically, and grunts romantically...