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Within these limitations, slum teachers score remarkable successes. They do manage to bring some order to otherwise chaotic lives. Says Conant: "The outward manifestations of discipline, order and formal dress are found to a greater degree in the well-run slum schools of a city than in the wealthier sections of the same city." Yet in most big-city slums, more than half of the students drop out of school when they reach the legal age, usually 16. Two-thirds of the dropouts fail to find jobs; even among those who get high school diplomas, roughly half cannot get work...
Harvard's ultra-chaotic football season continued its latest downward swing into the depths of despair and frustration yesterday with the news that quarterback Ted Halaby will be sidelined for the next two weeks...
...were at the height of their successes; later, during the nightmarish retreat, the two lovers meet with their own special tragedy. The parallel between the personal and over-all themes would be entirely plausible, if left to the reader to discover, for it is natural enough that in the chaotic sickness of a starving people's retreat would be many individual calamities. But Aten and his ghostwriter cannot leave well enough alone- throughout the middle part of the book appear such signposts as "It was as if, with Nina's departure (her unit had been ordered away), mercy left...
...been near its end, anyway. The fact remains that as the exponent of the limited hope he had performed great service, the best measure of which was that the Russians had vowed to destroy him and his office ever since last year when he moved U.N. troops into the chaotic Congo, thus preventing a Moscow-run regime. A favorite motto of his was a quotation from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; one should, he said...
...Flying Eagle. The Holy Week of which Aragon writes is the chaotic, rain-drenched and rumor-filled week between Palm Sunday and Easter in 1815. Napoleon, having just escaped from Elba, was marching up to Paris to begin the historic Hundred Days, which were to end with Waterloo. And as Napoleon approached-"the Eagle flying from steeple to steeple," rallying to his standard the regiments sent against him-King Louis XVIII, fat and fatuous, was fleeing north toward the Belgian border amid a confusion of loyal musketeers and grenadiers...