Word: successful
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...instruction and grading are also biased in favor of students with a middleclass style of verbal ability. Sociologist David A. Goslin of the Russell Sage Foundation argues that reliance on vocabulary skills should not be considered an evil in itself. "If facility with the English language is necessary for success in our society," he says, "then a test of verbal ability in English is not an unfair yardstick...
...more than three centuries, the Boston Latin School ranked with the very best American secondary schools -standing almost without peer among public schools. With an equal reverence for strict discipline and classical learning, Boston Latin could claim at least some part in the later success of a line of "old boys" that stretched all the way from Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Kennedy and Leonard Bernstein. But after World War II, as the city school system deteriorated, Boston Latin went into a sharp decline, and for a while seemed destined to become just another inept high school. Now, in a striking...
...more noticeable, then, has been its deterioration over the past few months. Formerly run by civilian professional broadcasters loosely controlled by the Army, AFN has gradually been taken over directly by the military. Its success rests largely with the officer in command, who must have good judgment enough to strike a balance between too much freedom of speech and too little. "There is no censorship per se," says onetime AFN managing editor Maury Cagle, now with ABC radio news. "The policy of AFN is determined by how scared the information officer is." The present one, Navy Captain Walter Ellis...
...genre was launched a couple of decades ago by Upton Sinclair in his Lanny Budd novels and was developed with sharper expertise by Allen Drury with Advise and Consent and Fletcher Knebel with Night of Camp David and Seven Days in May. The success of such books depends on a measure of atmospheric authenticity to give readers the illusion that they are really being taken into White House bathrooms and Pentagon war rooms, and on suspense. Knebel, a former Washington reporter, is adept at providing both qualities, and therein lies the book's virtue...
These Canadian teams are generally comparable to New England small-college teams, and if Harvard hopes to have any success in the Ivy League schedule that begins next weekend it should pick up some victories...