Word: transcripts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mood to prize personal authenticity over ideas, candidates see some advantage in presenting themselves as, if not flat-out stupid, at least aggressively nonintellectual. It's true that when Bush first got into the race he joked a bit about his academic shortcomings in college, and when his Yale transcript was printed in the New Yorker, the impact on his campaign seemed so negligible that I was moved to write a couplet that went, "Obliviously on he sails/With marks not quite as good as Quayle's." (The fact that those marks got him into the Harvard business school...
...some flashes of the uncompromising clarity of moral vision that is apparent in her best fiction: but these glimpses of Gordimer at her best only serve in this context to accentuate the reader's disappointment in the rest of the compilation. In 1959: What is Apartheid?, a transcript of a seminar given in Washington DC, we see the Gordimer who we know and admire. Her prose rings pure and true, like good crystal: simple and clear, but heavy with a kind of unexpected weight. This is the Gordimer who spoke because her words demanded to be heard, and these words...
...some flashes of the uncompromising clarity of moral vision that is apparent in her best fiction: but these glimpses of Gordimer at her best only serve in this context to accentuate the readers disappointment in the rest of the compilation. In 1959: What is Apartheid?, a transcript of a seminar given in Washington DC, we see the Gordimer who we know and admire. Her prose rings pure and true, like good crystal: simple and clear, but heavy with a kind of unexpected weight. This is the Gordimer who spoke because her words demanded to be heard, and these words deserve...
...culture of protest did not inspire Bush to immerse himself in his academic work. In four years, he never failed a class at Yale, but he never scored better than an 88 in any course, and got a 69 in Astronomy, according to a copy of his transcript published in The New Yorker...
Back in the dorm room, Gore was a methodical planner, never seeming to worry much about tests or term papers. Although Gore's staff declined to release his grades or a transcript of his courses, friends said they recall Gore as a superior student. His grades were high enough to qualify him for the Honors Program in government, which allowed him to write a thesis...