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Before long, he is returned with his wife to the U.S., where he continues to back into happiness. First Heather clips Chinese newspapers for the CIA. Next he writes successful spy novels. After a personal revelation from God on the Paris Metro, he sits down to concoct his autobiography. It is the very novel one has been reading. He calls it a "comical-historical-pastoral," which echoes Hamlet but excuses a great many loose ends. It also gives Rogers, a crafty, winsome novelist, the freedom essential to the telling of a shaggy God story. ·R.Z.S...
Today Robbins encourages the same kind of entrepreneurial experimentation. As part of their three-week training program, fledgling district sales representatives are asked to concoct a new flavor. Robbins even turned TIME'S Michael Creedman loose in the lab last week. The reporter mixed print-stock-white vanilla with letter-size bits of black chocolate and a ribbon of magazine-border-red strawberry to produce a flavor called Stop the Presses...
...Despite the landslide, it was the hardest-fought election in South Korea's postwar history. The challenger, a newspaper publisher turned politician who has been elected to the National Assembly three times, excited Korean voters with his flair for baby kissing, dramatic rhetoric, mudslinging, and boundless ability to concoct campaign promises. Kim zeroed in on the corruption that plagues the regime. "More than 300 of Park's top men have made up to $100 million each under his rule!" he cried. "As long as President Park remains in power, corruption will not be rooted out of Korea...
...time, Stephen knocked out scripts for the television sitcom Topper and honed his skills as an amateur gamesman. Sondheim is one of the world's fastest cutthroat anagram players, and the walls of his Manhattan town house are covered with antique game boards. (Between shows, he used to concoct the tantalizing puzzles on the back pages of New York magazine.) Thanks to the theatrical interests of his mother, an interior decorator known to friends as "Foxy," Stephen easily became a social caterpillar on the Manhattan show-biz party circuit. At one affair he met Playwright Arthur Laurents, who was reworking...
...alternatives facing us should be clear. Jones and other experts assume the right to make decisions about everybody's children, and then concoct theories and materials which can't fix even the superficial problems of the public schools. Meanwhile those schools, already the most totalitarian institutions in our society, are systematically destroying the souls of children. Dennison tells us that education must focus not on systems and materials but on the lives of individual children, and that it must be located in the communities that care for these children...