Word: rubrication
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...Lewontin would prefer to give the course entirely pass-fail. It would eliminate competition, he says, and allow students to study the material out of interest rather than a desire for a good grade. But since a pass-fail course could not be offered under the Gen Ed rubric, and because the University does not offer lecture courses on a strict pass-fail basis, Gould and Lewontin chose to assure students they had no need to worry about the minimum grade level...
...these questions have something in common. They are asked-and answered-by a lively gaggle of publications known as city magazines, a diverse, eclectic and sometimes unruly group of enterprises to crowd under one rubric. But most, whatever else they do, aspire to be urban survival manuals, guiding their readers toward the best that city life has to offer while warning them away from its pitfalls and dangers. The genre is by and large prospering: while magazines in general lost advertising pages in 1975, city magazines as a group increased their ads by some 1,100 pages over...
...Tolstoy, used folk tales as vital elements in his work. The selection of folk tales in this English volume was made from Alexander Afanasev's classic mid-19th century collection. First published in the U.S. 30 years ago, the book has now been reprinted under the somewhat misleading rubric Russian Fairy Tales. Actually, the stories include animal fables and laconic anecdotes illustrating some scrap of peasant wisdom...
...also holds considerable sway over the country's biggest local school system. During New York City's fiscal crisis, Shanker has emerged as the toughest and most intransigent of its municipal labor leaders, backed by an equally determined rank and file that deeply believe in the simple rubric he has taught them: "Power is a good thing. It is better than powerlessness...
...medium-range planners, what technocrat would care to prejudice his findings by observing, "Between now and 1984," as if he were say ing, "Between now and Armageddon . . ."? As it comes ever closer, the year 1984 may well become, like the 13th floor on the elevator bank, a rubric best bypassed...