Word: kaplan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joke that the H in Stanley H. Kaplan stands for preparation. No, I never dreamed that this aside would constitute the sum and substance of my response to the survey, as reported by Mr. David P. Greene. In the interest of fair play on a genuinely important issue, I hope you'll allow me to review for your readers the three major points I raised during the interview...
...Test Coaching a Waste of Time) was contradicted by the experience of the minority of Harvard frosh who took coaching. I added that I was delighted to learn that, while this whole group had raised their scores enough to meet Harvard's stringent standards, the students who had taken Kaplan programs showed the greatest point increases of all. (For the purposes of the survey, coached students were divided into four groups: those taking Kaplan, those taking Princeton Review, those attending other commercial courses, and those taking school programs.) The headlines not only contradicted these findings, it even opposed Mr. Fitzsimmon...
Stanley H. (the H stands for Henry) Kaplan President, Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center...
...fate has added an even more bizarre twist to the story of the poet's death and afterlife. Ackroyd is cited in a new nonfiction work, The Family Romance of the Impostor-Poet Thomas Chatterton, by Psychologist Louise J. Kaplan. Examining the causes of plagiarism, she quotes Eliot's biographer: "As Ackroyd says, there is a 'continual oscillation between what is remembered and what is introduced, the movement of other poets' words just below the surface...
...just as Meredith plays a part in Ackroyd's book about Chatterton, Ackroyd has a walk-on in Kaplan's. If the accretion of historical detail were + all, this would be a superlative evocation of the England of George III. But Kaplan's aim is psychobiography, and her narrative attempts to press a free spirit into a Freudian mold. She rings in a psychoanalyst to testify on mind and motive: "Those who have not been able to project their Ego Ideal onto their father . . . grant themselves their missing identity by different means, creation being one among others. The work thus...