Word: senioritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senior Editor George Daniels (deep-sea fishing), Writer Charles Parmiter (hunting), Reporter Mark Goodman (football) and Researcher Geraldine Kirshenbaum (sky diving) make no claim to expertise in sailing-but they were just as concerned as Painter Lundgren, because they have readers who raise the devil when they make a mistake. To help bring the language through, they turned to the glossary and diagram that appear with the cover story, as well as to their skill at translating the expertise...
...debate with him." Asked if he thought Brown also was a Communist, Kirk borrowed one of Walter Reuther's old tag lines: "If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it must be a duck." Nevertheless, the Governor thought that Brown, a dropout in his senior year at Louisiana's Southern University Agriculture and Mechanical College, still had a lot to learn about demagoguery. "If that's the way to start a riot," said Kirk, "he's not much...
Died. Matthew R. Goodman, 20, Cornell University senior and only son of Author Paul Goodman, social philosopher (Growing Up Absurd, Compulsory Mis-Education) and unofficial saint of New Left campus movements; of injuries when he fell from a ledge on New Hampshire's North Percy Peak while on a climbing expedition...
...editor and novelist, a Tennessee Irishman who signed on as a writer for TIME in 1929, was co-managing editor from 1937 to 1941 (he coined the term World War II) before becoming managing editor of the March of Time from 1941 to 1946, then joined Newsweek as a senior editor and six years later retired to write fiction, producing three novels, including Tower in the West, a parable of brotherly love, which won the 1957 Harper novel prize; of a stroke; in Siasconset, Mass...
...Year Off. Upton's multifaceted "Beloit Plan," started in 1964, drops the usual freshman-sophomore-junior senior divisions, in favor of lower, middle and upper classmen. This permits him to treat the two middle years as a single, highly flexible unit. The lower and upper classmen must attend three consecutive trimesters - but in the middle two years students need be on the campus for only two terms. They can choose from among some 30 combinations of classes and off-campus independent study, full-time work, foreign study or just plain vacation. A student can, in fact, arrange to ignore...