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...children love it. So do some 14,000 other Philadelphia youngsters who are taking Latin in 20-minute daily sessions of games, songs and chatter, supplemented by lively workbooks starring Batman, Conan the Barbarian and Donald Duck. "It's fun," says Powel Pupil Richard Williams, 9, adding that at home he hails his father with "Salve!"At New York City's private Trinity School, eighth-graders take turns reading aloud about a freed slave who owns a glassmaking shop. Teacher Cornelia Iredell spices the session by mixing in bits of grammatical instruction with the information that Roman merchants...
...could "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." The young Muhammad Ali dazzled all who saw him perform in the ring, where his dancer's footwork and lightning-fast combinations enabled him to win the world heavyweight championship three times. And out of the ring, his nonstop chatter, his doggerel verse and his insistence that he was "the greatest" won him worldwide affection...
...conventions in four years, network executives are eager to lay down the burden of being the first with the most public service. They will probably take a cue from the Olympic coverage, going live for major events, but instead of filling the rest of the time with their own chatter, offering up taped portions of the day's earlier sessions. In this way the networks should be able to operate more modestly, while more faithfully recording the occasion they set out to cover...
...faculty member has succumbed to, but which should not be allowed to ruin his career or otherwise affect the past of his life. Dzeich and Weiner show how the pervasive myths about college women's beauty, voluptuousness and often sexual looseness, in fiction and is much academic office chatter, help give professors this impression that the young women in their classes are somehow there for the taking. In another compelling formulation, the authors take account not only of the academic profession's particular setup, which is ideal for the harasser who is so frequently given sole power over, for instance...
When cocktail-party chatter turns to investments these days, it frequently contains a new buzz word: zeros. Short for zero-coupon bonds, the term refers to certificates that pay no interest for a decade or more but then mature into whopping sums. In just 18 months since the bonds were introduced, Wall Street brokerage firms have sold more than $30 billion. Says Katherine Reed, a bond analyst for Drexel Burnham Lambert: "Zeros are really the rage...