Word: acceptible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life of broken dreams, she is seen as the only force holding her family together. As her husband Charlie, Rick Guthrie is a broken dreamer, unable to produce the money the family needs to supplement their daughter's newly won scholarship, while Nikki Harris, as the daughter, cannot accept the emptiness of the opportunity the government has offered...
...Faculty Council charter that established the concentration of the Comparative Study of Religion limits to ten the number of concentrators that program may accept each year. The other four "elite" majors impose their own limits, based on budgets and resources...
...intervals to visit his grandson. The adolescent, by letting himself be caught in drinking and sex orgies, tries to convince his grandfather that they have nothing in common. When he goes to bed with a respectable girl only to shock his grandfather, he succeeds in making the old man accept his assigned role in the family. The grandson is left with "complicated feelings," because he finds out to his surprise that his grandfather had loved him, while he had only been a tool of his parents...
...school that Hentoff mentions is P.S. 91, an elementary school in a "disadvantaged" neighborhood of Brooklyn where principal Martin Schor refused to accept the notion that poor children are handicapped in learning to read. Schor's efforts resulted in a dramatic improvement in reading scores--51 per cent of the students were reading above the national norm while in other elementary schools in the same district the percentage was between 20 and 40. Schor's approach, although traditional, placed rigorous demands on his teachers to make sure all students, especially in the critical early grades, were able to read well...
...adds he would like to make Morton a hero of some sort, so if people felt they had not succeeded by Harvard standards, it is possible they might have done something right anyway. Although Morton will be given dreams and realistic views which the author says he does not accept, the speech will be more entertaining than critical...