Word: grading
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...athletes in the debate laboratory received credit for an entire semester's work by attending a special five-day crash course during Christmas vacation. After the Rose Bowl, the athletes also had to grade participants in six debates in local tournaments...
...ACTORS INHABIT Innaurato's universe with relish and sensitivity, turning in uniformly splendid, often unforgettable performances. Jeff Gerrard gives a delightfully detailed performance as Francis, from his nasal prissiness and grandmotherly peevishness to his awkward, chunky waddle. As his father, John Lagioia affects the stance of a fifth-grade toughie, his bluster sometimes dissolving into a haggard awareness. As Bunny, Laurel Cronin's intelligence, feeling--those drunken arias!--comic timing, and, finally, beauty are every bit as elephantine as her frame. There is fine support from Kaye Kingston's ghoulishly tacky Lucille and Ann Kerry's fetching Judith...
Worse, many of these jokes aimed at the biggest problems with the Law School: the inhuman competition, the grade-lust, the Brooks Brothers suit and the job on Wall Street after graduation. These are fit objects for satire, but not when the satirists are the villains themselves--then the humor is only a device to distance these people from their own guilt. It is offensive to hear somebody yuk it up about working for Cravath, Swaine and then go interview with them the next day. Yukking it up about corporate fascism makes it a lot easier to live with yourself...
...massive factory-like building on 400 acres of wooded land in Princeton, N.J., ETS officials create, grade, and evaluate their tests. They hold workshops to train a freelance pool of people who, along with ETS employees, devise test questions. The process is time consuming and meticulous. The prepared questions undergo a series of reviews for simplification and clarification, in which ETS employees try to spot and eliminate all the potential cultural or sexual biases they can find. By the time a question reaches final test form, it has been inspected at least 30 times, and that takes 18 months...
...With a length of 3,028 meters, the Whiteface downhill is a little too short and, in its final third, a little too flat to test the world's best skiers. But the run has its challenges, especially in the upper third, a steep (up to 55° grade), twisting course that runs through such expert skier's delights as "Hurricane Alley" and "Dynamite Corner." It is there the skier must show the technical virtuosity to survive the turns while building the momentum to swing down through the steep, screamingly fast (nearly 90 m.p.h.) middle section that eventually...