Word: orals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ORDWAYS, by William Humphrey. In fine Southern rhetoric, Author Humphrey tells of the Ordways, who made it on foot from Tennessee to East Texas, and whose children recount a comic oral history of their journey and its fruits...
...that odd, oral simile Chen neglected to say who was the teeth and who was merely the lip. But Peking's friends provided plenty of lip service. From Djakarta to Caracas, mobs led by Chinese Communist and other "students" smashed U.S. embassy windows, burned cars, ripped American flags, winged inkpots, and howled for Lyndon Johnson's blood. Back in Moscow after his eleven-day swing through Asia, So viet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at least partly echoed the Peking line; he promised "appropriate" military aid to the North Vietnamese, and his propaganda machine threatened dire consequences unless "American imperialism...
...twice-a-year "don rag," which is the closest St. John's comes to a report card. It is also the logical extension of the school's Socratic teaching method, which stresses 100 "great books" and depends almost exclusively on small tutorial discussion groups and oral exams...
...much of a good thing makes Jack a dull, ulcer-ridden boy. After three weeks of concentrated intellectuality exams begin to seem anticlimatic. Dining halls fill up instantly at 12:00 and 5:30 with studiers looking for lowgrade oral satisfactions to break the tedium. In the spring escapists can lounge along the Charles; in January the only alternatives are to check into the Brattle or turn to gin, either dealt or sipped. If the University wants to indulge us, it ought to cut a week out of reading and exam periods and add it to intersession, when the relaxing...
...Dean of the University of Saigon, through the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission office in Vietnam, had invited Fieser to give two Ph.D. oral examinations and to conduct a seminar entitled. "Useful Reagents That No One Has Seen...