Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Woody Allen a genius? Well, if he is, he is a sick one. He and his characters are so trapped in themselves and their hang-ups, sex and masochism that they don't know the world out here is beautiful and that most people aren't like that...
...about Scott] became an obsession and his thoughts desperate." At Thorpe's instigation a former airline pilot, Andrew Newton, 31, was offered $20,000 to carry out the killing. Thorpe, it was alleged in pretrial testimony, characterized the plan as not much worse than doing away with "a sick dog." In October 1975, Newton has admitted, he lured Scott to a lonely Devon moor and leveled a gun at him. But Newton apparently panicked and instead shot Scott's dog, a Great Dane named Rinka, then fled...
GIVEN THE INEVITABILITY of an administrative response to the 300 per cent increase in sick outs over the last five years, the plan to place an asterisk after a grade received for a make-up exam is a reasonably good...
...Council argues the policy will not hurt any student who is genuinely ill, because a senior tutor could explain the reason for a medical excuse in a letter appended to a student's transcript. But often the reasons behind a sick-out--though legitimate--are not as simply explained as a broken leg or German Measles. Undergraduates who ask for excuses because of personal problems or serious mental distress might not want to advertise these private matters in a letter that will go into their permanent University record...
...ORDER TO RELIEVE the pressures that drive students to use the sick-out, the University should form a policy which shifts the weighting of grades away from final exams to overall course-work. This approach could partially defuse the threat posed by final exams, and might also encourage students to keep up with their courses through the term...