Word: amidone
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...untethered, slowly slide away from the vision of a happy life. It’s a reluctance to surrender these individual visions that fuels the collective fascination with one another’s failures. Suburban desperation is no new project for novelists and with his riskless and stilted prose, Amidon does little to build upon the motif. Tired and clunky language encumbers the novel, and thus, like the characters within, it never achieves its modest promise.The book opens with an alarm at Doyle Cutler’s house and, although nothing concrete has happened, it is clear that that Cutler...
...Anytime she represents USA Hockey she’s being evaluated,” says Michelle Amidon, the Director of Women’s Hockey for USA Hockey. “The thing that stands out with Katey is her leadership, how long she’s been in the women’s game...
...Amidon of Wilmington, who as a registered "Undecided" can choose which party's ballot he will fill out upon arriving at the polls, conveyed firm opinions of the candidates' characters...
Like the teacher he once was, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett was standing before a group of pupils on their first day of school last week. Bennett had come to Amidon Elementary School, in a low-income district of Washington, D. C., to tell the children about the importance of rules and to ask them what they were learning. In case any of them were wondering about the identity of this man surrounded by reporters and television cameras, their principal, Pauline Hamlette, had a simple answer. Mr. Bennett, she told them, is "America's schoolmaster...
Later the same day, the schoolmaster handed out a report card not only on Amidon but on all the nation's elementary schools. The outspoken Secretary, who favors local initiative over guidance (or dollars) from Washington, released an 83-page rundown of what he believes should be the goals of primary-level curriculum and methods. Called First Lessons: A Report on Elementary Education in America, Bennett's document awarded passing grades in most subjects, but with room for improvement...