Word: uprighteous
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...praises Coles course, which emphasizes moral self-evaluation in combination with literary analysis. "I've learned that there is a purpose to a liberal arts education Harvard shows a different way of life than most people live." Referring to a new interest in modern art prompted by Professor Diane Upright's Core course on the subject, Beren calls tennis his own form of "art." "I do my best there because I enjoy it," he says, "not for any ulterior purpose like winning...
...opponent for a low pair and discounted his fifth card as no help. He bet everything he had. As Alvarez writes, "In the moments of silence after Moss pushed what remained of his quarter of a million dollars worth of chips into the center, the Greek eyed him, upright and unblinking, and then said softly, 'Mr. Moss, I think I have a jack in the hole.' " He did, and he won half a million dollars. "But that was all right," Moss explained to Alvarez. "I broke him anyway...
...asked to expend the kind of mental effort that keeping up with The School for Scandal requires. The plot is spiderwebbed from the beginning: a "school" of conniving gossips with names like Benjamin Backbite. Lady Sneer-well, and Mr. Snake, whose greatest pleasure is to ruin the reputations of upright citizens through rumor. Lady Sneerwell (Shirley Wilber), it turns out, is also passing the time by angling for the heart of a young heir to-be-named Charles Surface (Stephen Rowe); her strategy is to connive with Charles's brother Joseph (Tony Shalhoub) in his attempts to win the heart...
Students flocked to Lit and Arts B-16 because "everyone wants to know what to say about modern art," Diane W Upright, associate professor of Fine Arts, and instructor of the course, said yesterday...
...next class, students from all four years were invited to cast their lot (although an unidentified anarchist posted fliers in the classroom repeating Upright's original ban on youngsters) and 380 lucky gamblers are now enrolled in the course...