Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sojourn in this circle began every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:45 a.m., when Quasimodo climbed the bell tower of Memorial Church and rang the Chem 20 bell. Twenty minutes later, I passed though the entrance of the first circle--coincidentally the entrance to the Science Center--and spent an hour of my valuable time copying blurred illustrations that upon later examination looked like the drunken scribblings of a dyslexic orangutang. Everyone knows that the dyslexic orangutang was never going to score above the median, and since the crafty simian had exchanged his notes for mine...
...panel, Bennett emphasized that it reflects his personal thinking. He dismissed any notion that elementary schools are menaced by "a rising tide of mediocrity," the much publicized phrase used in A Nation at Risk, a 1983 report on American high schools by a panel appointed by his predecessor, T.H. Bell. Bennett contended that primary schoolchildren are "getting better at basic skills" like reading, writing and arithmetic. But, he maintained, "when asked to begin applying these skills to the acquisition of more complex knowledge, usually around fourth grade, many begin to falter," in part because of growing distractions outside school...
...this is not the sort of gem Stachiewicz is talking about. "When they were doing work near his old place on Duncan Street," Stachiewicz says, "he would turn on the mike so you could hear the hammering and he'd say, 'This morning Mac Bell has been hammering over at his shop, and I asked him to stop and he wouldn't, and it's driving me crazy.' Everything else is being homogenized, sanitized, deodorized. Simon is none of the above, and it's beautiful...
...Bell concurs, more or less. "Befriending Simon Geller," he says, "is like befriending an extremely tough, seemingly tired, apparently less than healthy watchdog. Some days he'd let you pet him, and some days he'd bite. And he is so very tenacious...
Perversely, Gloucester has spurned this offer, rallying behind Geller. And WVCA has managed to endure. The newspapers have described the case as an "epic David-and-Goliath struggle." And the mayor of Gloucester has pointed out, in case anyone forgets, that in the original, it was David who won. (Bell notes an irony in this: Geller's cause has been represented in Washington by a public interest law group paid for by foundations and corporations considerably more powerful than Grandbanke.) The next round is scheduled for argument in federal court this fall. In the end, Geller believes, the station will...