Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From that point of view, grading- a sort of systems-analysis-efficiency-check-up- inhibits learning and thinking. From that point of view, the traditional modes of instruction- the lecture and the discussion class or section- are, in reality, un-educative processes. In lectures, a professor transmits the ideas and methods of his professional discipline as efficiently as possible to the students. But the students have no opportunity to think and question. This is often true of sections too, especially when the section leader has to "cover ground...
...more time to the Crimson than to all their courses combined. Of course, not many people do this, and it's expected of no one. We only mention it to show how absorbing the work can be, if you give it the chance. And it isn't beside the point that Crimson editors have a higher grade average than their schoolmates, despite Crimson labors...
...expected, the race started. I had worn my sneakers for the occasion, and it's a good thing. Harvard coach Bill McCurdy likes to keep an eye on his team as it runs the race, so he runs from check point to check point to meet the runners and give vocal encouragement. I was going to be your basic on-the-spot reporter and get lots of valuable quotes, so I ran with him with my pad in one hand and instamatic in the other. He took me through prickers over rocks down cliffs. But it was worth...
...Miss Field, who alternately admires her husband and pushes him to desire something more. Shepperd Strudwick, in this same manner, enters with the false confidence of an Academy Award nominee and leaves expressing the forceful anger of one who "should have won." Whenever he sees Walter at the point of losing his self-assurance. Strudwick looks at or rubs his hands- the surgeon's hands, the hands that have given him his material happiness. In this way, he shows that Walter refuses to admit that his hands have failed him. He expects his rewards in life to mirror his well...
...tawdry furniture. Nevertheless, the price for the furniture and for experience is always constant according to the appraiser. Miller uses similar parallels between the set and the dialogue, and between the dialogue and the characters' actions to solidify the basic theme of his play. But these symbolic effects also point out the flaw in this work...