Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back in 1973 I was an inner-city kid going to high school and as far as rock 'n' roll was concerned, I was bored. Then came the New York Dolls [Aug. 20]. They were all decked out in platform shoes and tacky glitter and they played with an energy I had never heard before. Their music was straight off the street, and I loved it. It's good to hear that David Johansen is keeping it alive...
...some ways, all that is overkill. "Exposing the test in one place is as good as doing it everywhere, in terms of allowing people to examine them," McLean says. "But we want to keep this momentum going and have it passed elsewhere, mainly so ETS can't isolate New York," she adds...
Originally, some had feared ETS would stop giving tests all together in New York. Now, though reductions in the number of tests given annually is likely, Churchill says, "I have heard no talk of a boycott." The only holdouts are the boards that administer the Medical College Admission Tests (MCATs) and Dental Aptitude Tests (DATs), both of which announced the day after the bill was passed that they were out of business in New York...
...heard nothing since from them," McLean says, adding that a court challenge to any boycott of New York might be instituted. "They haven't announced any change in their position, but they have stopped boasting about their move too. From what a lot of people have told me, it would be impossible for them to go through with it," she says, adding her suspicion that the boycott announcements were made in hopes of getting an exemption for the two tests. Cuts in service are likely. "I have heard a lot of talk about it from many of the boards, College...
Xeroxed readings on current ternational conflicts provide the examples for Fisher's presentations and the hour-and-a-half section meetings. However, their bulk shouldn't put you off--if you read The New York Times regularly, it really isn't necessary to do any of them...