Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...derived from the Creole Chasse-beau or a sexual association, derived from jasm--so you won't be trailblazing, merely patience-breaking, if you try to discover pure jazz. Like Disraeli's put-down of Bismarck's revelling in the label "honest broker," ("There is no honest broker") the phrase is a contradiction in terms...
Analyzing the qualities of well-written prose, Tuchman stressed clarity, a scrupulous regard for facts, and a feeling for the "sound of words." She said that the well-turned phrase was the secret of the writer's immortality...
...Indochina. But America, apparently, does, and the detailed portraits of individuals Emerson gives us are far more moving than statistics could be. It is the small things about the war, the minor tragedies, that hurt. Emerson calls one section of the book "Odd things not yet forgotten," but the phrase could be the title of the book as a whole, a collection of small incidents that should be remembered...
What accounts for the charges? As best I can make out from The Crimson, Suze used a student essay containing the phrase "nigger maid" as a prose model. Also, she required that her students read the essay by X.J. Kennedy entitled "Who Killed King Kong?", in which Kennedy sees Kong as "a black superman figure." I do not have access to the first essay cited, the student essay, but I have read Kennedy's piece, and I gladly tell of it: it comprises twelve paragraphs, only one of which, the second to last, deals with black response to King Kong...
Devalued Diploma. The result: in the past year, "minimal competency testing" has become the hottest new catch phrase in public education. Described by educators as a "man on the street" effort to halt the devaluation of a high school diploma, minimal competency requires students to pass proficiency exams, in addition to course work, in order to graduate. So far, six states -California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia and Washington-have enacted minimal competency laws. Florida has also outlawed traditional "social passing," by which illiterate students eventually graduated after merely attending school enough years. In ten more states, boards of education...