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Meanwhile, the parents heartily compliment each others' daughters. "Weezie is certainly a picture tonight," ventures one man to a beaming woman. "Isn't she?" responds Weezie's mother. "I'm so proud of that girl, the way she's gotten hold of herself. She really messed up her life a few years back, just messed...
Hamilton says a woman who seldom makes sexism an issue has more effect when she does make an objection. "I got called the 'prettiest little girl in our class' by a classmate at a job-hunting party. I pointed out to him later that that wasn't a compliment--and he won't do it again. If he had been used to my objecting to his vocabulary, he wouldn't have taken me seriously...
Patients sit at a keyboard and punch out answers to questions on the screen of a computer terminal. For the early part of the interview, the computer is programmed to cajole and compliment the user ("You're a pro at using the terminal"). But when it is time for the crucial questions, the computer is blunt ("What are your chances of being dead from suicide one month from now?" "By what method do you plan to commit suicide...
...concession to the age of the audience. "If children don't understand a word," he says, "they will search it out. That's how their language will grow." In schools he visits regularly, students often ask to skip lunch or gym to attend a storytelling, a high compliment in these days of wall-to-wall TV. Teachers find O'Callahan not only stirs total attention, but inspires students to read. As Newton P.T.A. Officer Jessica Davis puts it, "It is extraordinary to see a storyteller with the tools of an art centuries old captivate a group...
...made it so is soft-spoken Paul Adams, 37, a black Protestant who took a pay cut from his job as manager at a fast-food outlet to become the school's $15,000-a-year principal in 1972. "He's mean," says a student, using a ghetto compliment. Also tough. Adams inherited the usual urban school woes. Says he: "There were kids on dope, gangs in the hallways. I was appalled." He instituted a shape-up-or-ship-out policy that public schools cannot follow. Students are fined or assigned mandatory chores if they are tardy or cut class...