Word: coline
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want my mommy," continually cried two-year-old Laura, subject of a documentary film which depicted the traumatic experiences of a small child requiring hospital care: The film was used as a springboard for discussion in a seminar conducted by Colin Couture and Jan Gaffney, two members of the Children's Hospital staff...
...around Ireland, his subjects ranging from Bernadette Devlin and Prime Minister Jack Lynch to the arch-conservative Protestant preacher, the Rev. Ian Paisley. Ophuls has structured the film not on these interviews, however, but around the impact of meaningless deaths. Parents mourn the incineration of their adopted son Colin, 17 months old; a widow tells how her husband, a prosperous Belfast businessman, tried to defuse a bomb that blew him apart. Ophuls ends this superb and important film with memories of a teen-age schoolgirl killed accidentally as she rode home from a dance one night in an ice-cream...
...those who did take the exams, 93% passed. Among them were David Munro, 35, a postal worker who pursued science studies "between putting two children to bed and having a quick pint," and Steelworker Colin O'Leary, 37, who jokes that after studying the philosophy of logic, "I can now win arguments...
Davies' best defense to date is that very opera Taverner. The Royal Opera, now under the adventurous direction of Conductor Colin Davis, has given Taverner a handsome, stirring production that turns out to be one of the major events of London's operatic season...
...case, is the theory cherished by many educators, who believe that if the schools had enough money, teachers and equipment, they could work the same miracle for black and Spanish-speaking peoples, the "new immigrants" of today. That theory is false, according to a new study by Colin Greer, The Great School Legend (Basic Books; $6.95). "The truth is that the immigrant children dropped out in great numbers-to fall back on the customs and skills their families brought with them to America. It was in spite of, and not because of compulsory public education that some eventually made their...