Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Loyal Democrat Tree got another reward from her grateful party...
Pleasure breeds remorse and despair; yet Faustus cannot repent. He can grasp the letter of God's law ("The reward of sin is death: that's hard"), but he cannot conceive the saving grace of Christ. He asks Mephistophilis why the Devil's agent is out of hell, and Satan's servant answers: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it: Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being depriv'd of everlasting...
Goodman's new book is particularly vehement about Harvard. Since the "Organized System" is a "strict top to bottom affair," the University sets a pattern in which grades and other extrinsic determine "who to accept, reward, hire." The archetype of the alienated kid is the guy who "'does' Bronx High to 'make' Harvard and 'does' Harvard to 'make...
...consensus does require that the President point to some greater good in togetherness than the reward each follower sees as the end of a separate path. A series of racial riots met by tough police suppression in coming years would make it doubtful that the present consensus based on the prospect of a Great Society could endure...
...student to recognize and choose among the idealized forms of ancient Greece, the saintly statues of medieval Christianity, the heroic proportions of a Michelangelo, the classical revival, and the textured boldness of contemporary art. No longer do multiple-choice tests offer nonsensical or mildly deceptive wrong answers, or reward fact fanciers with high scores. The best of the new multiple-choice exams test logic, not memory, and conceptual understanding rather than rote learning. And the exam's old reputation for superficiality is fading...