Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD BUNCH. Director Sam Peckinpah renders a vast canvas of the waning West in this drama of men who insist on living by their own outmoded moral code. The performances are faultless and the film is one of the year's best...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim ot decide what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide: C--,(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C--a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read...
...deodorant, titles of six poems in a row, even an interesting date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading; and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them insert them in outline form; make sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top, "Illustrate;" Be Specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course needn't be singularly relevant, but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your blue-book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List...
...WILD BUNCH. Director Sam Peckinpah renders a vast canvas of the waning West in this drama of men who insist on living by their own outmoded moral code. The performances are faultless and the film is one of the year's best...
...future. Vice President Spiro Agnew wants the U.S. to aim at putting a man on Mars by the year 2000, and NASA already has on hand a plethora of ambitious projects that should keep it busy through 1985. Critics like Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney insist that it is time to slow down in space and "deal with problems on earth...