Word: standardization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program would "instill a desire" in undergraduates to attain academic distinction and ever-rising levels of intellectual achievement. Professor A.C. Hanford triumphantly wrote to Perry, "As a result of eight year's experience as a tutor, I am confident that the tutorial system has been responsible for increasing the standard of scholarship and for encouraging men to try for something more than a C mark...
...disturbed at the headline on the Caryn Curry profile, "Basketball Star 'Plays Like a Man'". This headline does nothing but reinforce the double standard and sexism that prevails on the subject of women's sports. When someone tells a woman athlete, like Caryn, that she does her sport like a man, it is taken as a compliment not because women are trying to emulate men but because playing like a man is synonymous with playing well. The way our society exists today, to be a good female athlete is to deny the mold that has encompassed women for years...
...bridge player and theorist; of a brain tumor; in Palm Springs, Calif. Abandoning billiards for bridge when he was in his 20s, Schenken played on four world-title teams and won a record five Life Master Pair Championships during his 50-year career, as well as devised such now standard game practices as the prepared opening bid, the weak two-bid and the forcing two-over-one response...
...from the excellent to the merely competent, the orchestra was uniformly professional, playing Ravenal's score with remarkable precision. The music caught the moods and feelings of the players throughout the first act. Composed by Ravenal and arranged by her with Pat Powers and Michael Schubert, it flowed from standard pop to jazz to a wonderful Carpenters imitation in the song "Mister Ivy," a song of passionate yearning in which Patti's quest comrades. (Ravenal also demonstrates her knack for a turn of phrase when Patti describes the most meaningful experience in her life--teaching an orphan to swim while...
...using more persuasive arguments against the whole idea of a balanced-budget amendment. Their cries of alarm only draw attention to the sad disarray into which American liberals have fallen. Calculating that they could not win a popular battle, they are calling in law professors and raising a standard in defense of a constitution which is in no danger. It would hearten those who agree with their basic stand against a balanced-budget amendment if they dropped the scare tactics and fought the issue out where it belongs, not in legal briefs, but in the legislatures and polls...