Word: impression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insights. Today's school system does more to suppress learning than to promote it. I am an honors student, but in these past twelve years I have learned neither history, science, French, nor English. Instead, I have learned how to fake an essay, how to cram, how to impress teachers, and how to comb my hair so that it will not appear to be in violation of the administration's dress code. The result is that upon leaving school one has the feeling that he never wants to "learn" another thing as long as he lives. Only through...
...Conference suggests consideration of the appointment of enumerators or supervisors by Presidential commission as a step to impress them with the seriousness of the task...
...grand scale a problem with all musical activity here -- opera, symphony and chamber music alike. In the rush to make his mark on the music scene, the Harvard musician tends to aim high, choosing to perform works guaranteed to get him one up on his fellow musicians and impress the dickens out of the general community. Very often there is more interest in the idea of the thing rather than in obtaining the best musical result. All too often one gets the impression the projects' progenitors had one of those "hey-wouldn't-it-be-fantastic-if" bull sessions...
...undergraduate musician is extremely conscious of the public eye, if not the public ear. He seems at all times to be out to impress, to make people gasp, "Look at all that boy is doing! And he's only a student...
...them just because they look so horrible?" The Senate responded to the uproar by authorizing $73,350 to make not one, but two 7-ft. casts of Marisol's Damien. Hawaii, said the Senate resolution, will be judged by the "maturity of its civilization." The Marisol version "will impress the viewer not only with the temperament, character and greatness of the man it represents, but also provide an unforgettable visual experience." Apparently persuaded, the House last week backtracked and, hours before adjournment, voted 37 to 14 to send Marisol's Father Damien to Washington...