Word: graders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Gerneralities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
THINK, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless, of course he is of the Wheatstone Bridgedouble differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want...
...York Newsday interviewed some of the neighbors of the accused and found among these kids "little sympathy for the victim." Said a twelve-year-old: "She had nothing to guard herself; she didn't have no man with her; she didn't have no Mace." Added another sixth-grader: "It is like she committed suicide...
...ordinary" citizens; others could be tied to drug criminals, who continue to produce their own separate necrology, turning inner cities into so many Dodge Cities. Then there are the now familiar cases of children found carrying weapons to the classroom; only last week a New York City fifth-grader brought a sawed-off shotgun to school...
Whether Channel One will succeed with its captive audience is yet to be seen. Early reviews from students who saw a prototype program were generally favorable. "I thought it was very interesting and informative," said Hajir Ardebili, a seventh-grader at Eisenhower Middle School in Kansas City, Kans. He had one familiar reservation: "Too many commercials...