Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cultural Revolution is an nation-wide cram session in Maoist thought that has been largely an urban phenomenon for the first few months of its active life. According to the rules, everyone takes as much time off as possible to read and discuss Mao's writings, and all are encouraged to point our mistakes committed by their elders and leaders...
...trouble is that the book, despite the obvious authenticity of its setting, is too reminiscent of all the old-fashioned prison stories that cram late-night...
Last week the Rt. Rev. Horace Donegan, Episcopal Bishop of New York, announced that the diocese was scrapping the ambitious Gothic plan drawn up in 1911 by Architect Ralph Adams Cram. He in turn had drastically revised the original Byzantine-cum-Romanesque church whose cornerstone was laid in 1892. Instead, the trustees of the diocese have approved a more modest program for completion submitted by the firm of Adams & Woodbridge. In place of the spire-topped 500-ft. Gothic tower that Cram envisioned at the crossing point of nave and transepts, the new design recommends a dome made of concrete...
...report. It strikes them as a time-consuming system to plan, and painful to participate in. Explains one, people from different departments "don't normally see each other," the meetings would be difficult to arrange, and once they were held, everyone would wrangle for hours trying to cram into the "core" as much of their own subject as possible. "If you talk to anyone in any department, agrees another professor, "they'll say their subject fits right into that irreducible minimum...
...contradictory concept or at least a luxury they can rarely afford. The student whose main interests lie outside of his courses wants to get his studying over with as quickly as possible; the reading-period crowds which fill the present libraries at the end of the term want to cram the most possible studying into their waning days. For these, the wonks of the Loeb, of Carpenter Center, or the classroom, pleasant surroundings are not attractive but distracting...