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When Marius took the helm of the Expos Department seven years ago, he introduced a one-on-one tutorial program offered each spring for students who earn unsatisfactory grades in fall expos classes. Freshmen who score 550 or lower on the verbal part of the Scholastic have been placed in first semester expos sections so they can take advantage of the spring tutorial, "Expos 14hf," if necessary...
...four other cities. Owen recounts that the Princeton Review and a few similar services, working from computer analysis of existing SATs, can boost students' SAT scores an average of 185 points (a perfect SAT mark is 1600; the national norm is 897, or 471 on mathematics and 426 on verbal skills). Katzman's top students, writes Owen, show average gains of 250 points. In singling out the Princeton Review, Owen gives scant attention to longer-established coaching services, like the 47-year-old Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center, based in New York City with branches in 120 cities, that make...
...Vries relies on literary parody, verbal burlesque and a baleful eye for "life-styles." The result is a deftly improvised confusion in which the suburbs become the stage for fragments of Elizabethan comedy, bits of Wodehouse farce and a generalized send-up of The Great Gatsby. There is even a climactic courtroom scene in which Teeters must defend himself against charges of smut peddling. Unfortunately, he has arrived in Merrymount one beat behind the conservative backlash and cannot convince a jury that his cassettes are the visual equivalent...
...talking about deliberate cruelty, even in its more subtle forms. What I am talking about, of course, is excess. I get the impression that some people have spent so much time in the trenches of verbal warfare that they have lost sight of the enemy...
...part of that crowd at 4:00 p.m. last Monday, February 11.1 was walking back from class. A 16-year-old boy in a red zipper jacket walked by me and spat on my shoe. I made a verbal note on his carelessness, and suddenly from right around me, three of his fellows, two of them 20 years old and in black leather jackets, the third, a bit younger and quite fat, jumped on me. One of them picked up a big rock and attempted to hit me with it. Someone held my arms behind my back while...