Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harding & Missiles. Underlying the U.S.'s local preoccupations was some real news of a different sort: after years on end of living with crisis and talk of crisis, the U.S. has settled into a New Normalcy, unhaunted by fears that twitches abroad mean another world war or that economic twinges at home mean another Great Depression...
...world" is hard to discern. Surely it points toward an assertion of freedom--man stripped bare of all sham, superstition, pride, and being forced to make decisions, and that the ways of fate and of the human psyche are unknowable and unpredictable. Yet the conclusion seems to proclaim a sort of human brotherhood that is partially alien to Satrian existentialism. On the other hand, it is quite possible the Satre views these two lonely people who find one another as asserting the same sort of freedom-in-isolation as Orestes in his Les Mouches. But drama, though a powerful media...
Gophers have dirty teeth, yellow bottoms, and thirteen stripes of a width-wise sort. They dig holes that trip cattle and eat grain, which aggravates farmers. They also incurred the enmity of Senator Richard L. Neuberger of Oregon, as if they didn't have enough trouble with nasty little men who pump bisulphide of carbon into their burrows. But at least these men make no pretensions about their aims, while Senator Neuberger has a sneaky, insidious scheme for annihilation...
...other defense upholds the importance and validity of grades, as they are. Dean Leighton says, "You must have some measure of academic performance," and he believes that grades are perfectly suitable. Showing grade curves which correlate with scores on Scholastic Aptitude Tests. Interpretations of this sort do not go unquestioned, however, for John U. Monro '34, director of Financial Aid, argues that while the percentage of students on Dean's List has risen over the years, it has not kept pace with the concurrent rise in SAT scores...
Grades at Bennington are kept only for graduate school references, without even the cryptic sort of communication to students Reed may employ. Written reports and weekly meetings with a counselor tell students of their progress...