Word: linearized
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...REMBRANDT ON THE ROCKS: The discovery of dazzling drawings of rhinoceroses and other animals in a French cave suggests that prehistoric art did not mature in a simple linear fashion but may have been punctuated by the influence of individual geniuses. The images in the Chauvet cave date from 30,000 years ago, 12 to 18 millenniums before comparable ones at Lascaux, in France, and Altamira, in Spain, and much earlier than anyone thought possible for such realistic portraits...
...what if Harvard abolishes its 15-point system altogether and replaces it with a linear scale like the 4.0 system used at many schools...
...option is to eliminate the 15-point scale and replace it with a linear scale such the 4.0 system...
...professors in the sciences, where the grading is more objective, favor a linear scale which would not contain a gap between an A- and B+. "I certainly don't think we need three grades between an A and a B," says James E. Davis, lecturer on chemistry and instructor of Chemistry 5. "I think there should be equal spacing between A- and a B+. And an easy way to make each of them equal is to go by .3 increments...
...unkempt, foul-smelling older man should approach you in a bus station and launch into a less than linear, sometimes obscene, clearly intelligent monologue, do not shuffle away immediately; you may be speaking to Phillip Roth, the bemedaled novelist. Just how long--and how carefully--you will listen is what interests this author. That is his schtick. Well, stick it out. With his twenty-first novel, Sabbath's Theater, Mr. Roth gives us Mickey Sabbath, an aging, disgraced, arthritic puppeteer limping, no reeling, towards death. Finally, he is a magnificent character in a compelling story, crashing backwards through...