Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simplest signs and labels (about 1 million); a group who are often classified as functionally literate; they can read simple materials--but only at an elementary school level (about 25 million); and a group who are able to read elementary level materials, but who cannot cope with the more complex materials of an information high-tech society (about 50 million...
...largest numbers of adults can read something; the National Assessment of Educational Progress reported this year that 98 percent of young adults (21 to 25) could "read and understand the written or printed word at some level." But very few of these young adults could read at more complex levels. Only 37 percent could read and understand the main argument in a column by Tom Wicker from The New York Times...
There have been other thrusts in past years. But the current adult literacy thrust seems to stem from the recognition that, while a little bit of literacy is better than none, it is not good enough today. What is needed today is the ability to read highly complex materials and to use it to solve problems and to learn on one's own. This level of literacy cannot be taught by engaging in a few reading excercises. It requires higher levels of language development, higher levels of reasoning, and advanced reading and study strategies...
...spirit of Williams and Walt Whitman are evident in Ginsberg's rhythmically rich verse. The speech patterns of these poets are ultimately translated by Ginsberg into his beloved blues lyrics (complete with music). Poems/songs like "Do the Meditation Rock" demonstrate not only his complex creativity, but a well-developed sense...
...despite the richness of James' brand of fiction, the book never seems overburdened or contrived. Her smooth unravelling of the mystery's details works hand-in-hand with her psychological portraits to create a work that is at once sheer entertainment and complex social inquiry. A Taste for Death may not go down in literary history as a great British novel, but it is a great British mystery...