Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOING the reading till the end also means that the course paper is done with a very sketchy understanding of what the course is all about. This forces most courses to allow almost complete freedom in the choice of paper topic--and often people write papers that they might have written without having taken the course at all. In short, anybody who does not read throughout the year loses much of the educational benefit of the lecture system...
...throughout the year usually ends up not paritcipating in any outside activities--for sheer lack of time if for nothing else. People who point with pride to Harvard's flourishing extra-curricular life may fail to realize that it exists only because most people do not do the reading till the end of the year...
...consists of all work and no play. The dancers pound the floor boards like maniacal trip hammers. Sweat glazes the hero as his arms flail, his eyes pop, and he tries to kick his toes into the wings. To amplify the hollow book, microphones soup up the sound till it becomes the aural equivalent of the medieval ordeal by fire. George M!-the latest of the Broadway season's unbroken string of execrable musicals-qualifies on all counts...
Despite the warning of its publicity sheet, after detailing the plot till within minutes of the end, that "the shocking conclusion of Planet of the Apes will not be revealed in any synopsis," the following synopsis will find it necessary to reveal the shocking conclusion: Three American astronauts zip through space and crashland on a planet where men are mute animals and apes are civilized. The one survivor (Charlton Heston), makes his own intelligence known to a female sociologist and her fiance (Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowell), who provoke a veritable Scopes trial in reverse, at the end of which...
...bein' as colorful as a cartoon, droppin' g's, singin' passels of ungrammatical songs (" 'bout you, 'bout me, 'bout us, 'bout we") and pronouncin' just about ev-erythin' on the fust syllable: Ree-pub-lican, convention, Yew-nited States, till you'd like to die gagging at some of the laffs...