Word: summa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision can be blamed for much of what is wrong with the film. Joyce can be blamed for the rest; he presents a moviemaker with formidable problems. Ulysses is one of the most complex literary compositions of modern times: a short story that exploded into a veritable summa of 30 centuries of Western culture. Most of the leading European languages, ancient and modern, and 18 different literary modes are merged in the amazing Joycean jargon-all of them so repetitively punctuated with wordplays that the book resembles a giant pun cushion...
...classé Profession. Unlike many civil-libertarians, Williams acquired his lofty ideals in courtrooms rather than classrooms. The son of a Hartford department-store floorwalker, he helped support his family as a filling-station attendant. A flawless student, he was awarded a scholarship to Holy Cross and graduated summa cum laude in 1941. Because he hurt his back in a plane crash, Williams was medically discharged by the wartime Army Air Corps after two years, went on to Georgetown Law School. By 1945 he was working for a big Washington firm. Although criminal law was then considered déclass...
Until his year, students who could not swim were graduated but not given a degree. Difficulties arose when businesses refused to hire these students. Non-swimmers plagued doctors and psychiatrists to be excused for chloride allergies on aquaphobia. One summa scholar supposedly spent the night before graduation trying to swim the IAB pool so that he might receive a Harvard diploma...
Fairbank, 21, already had quite a reputation. He had been valedictorian at Exeter and was writing an excellent thesis, later awarded a summa, on the Russian revolution. He had come from South Dakota ("from the provinces," as he later described it) and when he spoke that afternoon the words came painstakingly slow and were full of unscholarly American idioms...
...almost predict what you will be doing after graduation from your degree of honors. At Radcliffe, all of last year's summa and magna highest graduates are in grad school, as well as 60 per cent of the magnas, 42 per cent of the cums, and only 33 per cent of the non-honors graduates. At Harvard, 92 per cent of the summas go to grad school, along with 87 per cent of the magnas, 82 per cent of the C.L.G.S. graduates, 81 per cent of the cums, and 52 per cent of the non-honors...