Word: classes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even if only 400 showed up from each class, Reiff asserted, the market would be a success. He cautioned that the whole procedure must take place in a very concentrated period of time, i.e., two hours...
...content with that alone. Lowell immediately went on to further academic reform. Within a year the College had adopted his plan for concentration and distribution, which took first effect with the Class of 1914. Under President Eliot, any student who had successfully completed 16 courses was eligible for the degree. The free elective system imposed no limitations whatsoever upon the choice of courses or their relevance to each other, so that any student who could "cram and pass" 16 times in succession was graduated. Although Lowell had vigorously and consistently attacked the system while Eliot was still in office, nothing...
...true. In high school, he scored 2,460 points in three years to smash Wilt Chamberlain's record by 208 points. By his senior year, some 150 colleges from Princeton to Hawaii were after him ("They woke me up in the morning; they got me out of class"), but he chose Ohio State. Last year, in two scrimmage games against the varsity, the phenomenal freshman unhinged his elders by nicking home 92 points. Giddy with anticipation, Coach Fred Taylor began drilling Ohio State in an offense that could be draped around the shoulders of his future star when...
...learns early to "defend" himself, as the French say. Naturally independent, he soon becomes a proficient liar, steals from his mother's purse, cheats in class, plays hooky. Finally the boy decides to "faire les quatre cents coups" (go for broke). He runs away from home, and to get money steals a typewriter from his father's office. He tries to sell it, finds he cannot, and is caught when he returns the machine. Horrified, his father takes him to the police station "to teach him a lesson." The children's court sends him to an "observation...
...difficulty in establishing a literary school is that someone is always cutting class. Novelist Nathalie Sarraute, dean of women of the French school known as the New Realist, inveighs against psychological novels, yet psychologizes in her own works. Her cofounder, Novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, is an object worshiper who would rather describe a love seat than a love scene; yet this is not consistently reflected in the novels of his disciples. They do have some common characteristics, notably a way of writing in flat tones of a world that is bleak arid joyless, where people lead lives hollow of meaning...