Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilcox's largest concern about the A. P. program has been that students might take advanced classes in high school, reject Advanced Placement, and then settle for grinding out A's in college courses they had in effect already taken. Of course, men with full Sophomore Standing can not do this: their promotion is contingent upon credits received for their advanced work in high school. A student with A.P. in one or two courses, however, is under no compulsion to avoid repetition. So far, though, virtually no one has used his accelerated training for mere grade advantage: this academic honesty...
Some Should Reject...
Khrushchev seemed to reject the West's proposal for a Big Four foreign ministers meeting on Germany. It would have been justified at the windup of World War II, he said, but "now the idea is plainly obsolete...
...only sensible alternative is to reject the Soviets' "economic war," and to remove the assistance to underdeveloped countries from the realm of Cold War competition. Economic development in the "uncommitteed areas" is in itself a reasonable goal for American policy...
...verses himself in Henry James, and obtains a lock of hair from the cranium of F. L. Seidel, himself a great Advocate critic a couple of years ago, a man than which there was no meaner Martini mixer. Experience becomes instinct, and criticism is much easier than it looks: reject stories written by those who are not your friends, particularly unwashed people; accept stories containing delectable bons mots in foreign languages, the more exotic the better. How to pick poetry is a more complex problem: obey your nose and judge the poet on the basis of his fragrance...