Word: orall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courses in the modern sense, nor were three professors. Instead, the tutorial method was employed, with one tutor for each class. Students were promoted or demoted on their tutor's opinion of their industry and ability. Degrees were a more serious matter. Students had to go through searching oral examinations to get them...
...fascism," inmates of orphanages, cum laude high-school graduates. Although high-school grades are in theory a determining factor, they actually have far less to do with a student's chances than his family background and his record of "social" (i.e., political) activity. The final high-school oral examination is a simple exercise in juggling the tortuous details of current party ideology...
...epilogue, in fact, is the best part of the Tufts show. Written in macaronic Latin, it is the classic take-off on pompous academic ceremony and all its mumbo-jumbo. In it Argan himself passes an oral examination and becomes a doctor. The charlatanism of the whole proceeding is epitomized in the fact that, no matter what illness Argan is asked to prescribe for, his answer (in dog-Latin) is always, "Give an enema, let blood, then purge." The singing and dancing, and the comical masks and over-sized enemas contribute much to the total effect...
...literary precursor of the novel was the tale, originally an oral narrative. In the hands of such latter-day practitioners as Oscar Wilde and Max Beerbohm, the tale became a highly sophisticated means of telling a story that would not be believable if told in any other tone of voice. In The Seven Islands, Novelist Jon (The House by the Sea) Godden makes the unbelievable believable by spinning with quiet skill a stately little tale about India and hanging from its frail threads the weight of an ancient way of life...
...Because the teeth are part of the body and exposed to the traumas, the disorders of growth, the intoxications, the infections, the dietary deficiencies, and all the other influences that cause disease of other parts of the body, the study, understanding, and management of dental and oral disease require a biologic and medical preparation not inferior to, and indeed not essentially different from, the preparation required for the study, understanding and management of disease of other parts of the body...