Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coffee for Breakfast. The get-to-know-the-barrio program starts with a 40-hour crash course in Chicano history and culture at Loma Linda University. The policemen learn about Mexican character, art, music and food. They go to a town south of the border for two weeks to study Spanish. The live-in phase of the program is optional. "It's not fair to mandate that kind of emotional experience," says Ferguson. Some 50 policemen have taken the Chicano course; eight have stayed with a family and several more volunteers are waiting their turn. "A lot of guys...
...vinegar. It is a magnificently spiteful spoof about a rich, prolific hack written by a man who frequently describes himself as a bleeder and a firm believer "that easy writ ing makes hard reading." The hack is the kind of man who dashes off a few mysteries before breakfast and boasts of popularizing Shakespeare so that he will be "comprehensible to the veriest moron ... to even a rock fan." He is also a painter with a worldwide reputation...
...some of his blood and then infused only the red cells back to him over a period of several hours. Condon stayed with the patient until his condition stabilized at 7 a.m. then tried unsuccessfully to catch a catnap on a stretcher. At 8 a.m., after a three-minute breakfast of toast and coffee, he was back in the ward starting another...
...Absolutely not. No problem at all. Of course we except that you have a thorough knowledge of medieval Latin from your breakfast conversations...
...discussion of how women can help themselves, the word "enrich" floats like through an adman's copy on breakfast cereals. A bored housewife can "enrich" her life by volunteering. A woman returning to work can gain valuable experience by volunteering. High school and college students can learn first hand about possible careers. And in a series of chapters strangely reminiscent of "Ask Beth" and her advice to lonely high school freshmen, Loeser recommends volunteering to widows divorcees, new people in town and retired women; and woman, that is, who is lonely and in need of company...