Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viet Nam inherited a rigid, rigorous school system from the French. Huge hoppers of facts must be memorized, and exams are tough. Students cram ceaselessly, go without vacations to study. Only 2.6% are able to cram in enough to pass their ninth-year exams, and only a minority of these survive their bachots four years later...
What emerges if these four types are added together? Dadaism, surrealism, stream-of-consciousness-ism and many another esthetic "ism" spring, obviously. from sources akin to those of Rousseau, Satie, Jarry and Apollinaire. Author Shattuck tries hard-and on the whole unsuccessfully-to cram all these tricks into a single bag. Despite the hearty, festive ring of the title, the "Banquet Years," says Author Shattuck, were essentially morbid. In his view they show the connection between modern art and a world that had lost its God and sprawled on the earth with many a gaping hole knocked through it. While...
Reading period is many different things to different people. For some it provides time to pursue individual academic interests. For many others it is essentially a cram session. And for a few it actually is what it was designed to be--a time for doing course assignments specifically reserved for these lectureless days...
...trying to cram Senator Kennedy down our throats via your Oct. 28 issue? His Jackson, Miss, speech doesn't make him President nor does his swimming (via TV's Navy Log) make him a hero...
...prepare for these ill-defined and sprawling areas? And once that Scylla is somehow desperately skirted, what of the Charybdis of the thesis? So many questions arise here that it is no wonder that only one solution seems at all sure; make the thesis a long one, cram it with learned footnotes and keep your own feelings and taste...