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...Nostrand has formed a nonprofit corporation-the Center for Research in Writing-to promote his course, and spends much time pondering new ways to teach writing-and its necessary companion, thinking. "If we could get at what you do when you learn by writing," he muses, "then we'd know how to teach people to think." Anyone for functional thinking...
...average starting salary for University of Illinois vet graduates in 1975 was $17,-580 for work in private industry, in such fields as pharmaceutical research. After they complete the required four years' training, the overwhelming majority of new vets go into private practice, many specializing in treating "companion animals," the nation's 60 million dogs and cats. A busy vet tending pets in Manhattan or Beverly Hills can earn $50,000 a year or more. Increasingly, however, vets are opting for what is known in the trade as a large-animal practice, which means caring for the nation...
...latest work is a learned, immensely readable study of Schubert's life and songs. The volume grew out of a long article Fischer-Dieskau wrote for his three-volume, 29-LP collection of Schubert lieder issued by Deutsche Grammophon seven years ago. There is also a companion volume, the Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder (Knopf; $15), containing texts and new translations of the singer's favorite German songs...
Lancelot's book-length monologue is addressed not only to the reader but also to Percival, a priest-physician and boyhood friend. His name rings of both the author's own and of Lancelot's companion in the Arthurian legend. He is silent, staring at a girl out the window until the book closes with his response to Lancelot that is Percy's hope for a rejuvenated Christianity...
...what was virtually a mass castration crusade. The government not only used a wide variety of economic incentives and disincentives to encourage sterilization, but also crude, strongarm tactics. These tactics alienated the teeming peasantry and urban poor who once supported Gandhi. The Youth Congress carried out sterilization and the companion slum clearance program with excessive brutality among the Muslims in Delhi, who saw the drive as an oppressive religious assault by the Hindus. Both the poor farmer and the menial city laborer viewed the aggressiveness of these programs as an attempt to destroy the large family, which they consider...