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STOP-TIME by Frank Conroy. 304 pages. Viking...
...Like most children," writes Frank Conroy in this precocious autobiography, "I was anti-sentimental and quick to hear false notes...
...conducting the survey was Vincent F. Conroy, lecturer on Education and director of field studies for Harvard's School of Education...
Davis was a member of that task force. According to associates, when Conroy first called Davis to tell him that he wanted to take part in the survey, Davis hung up in anger and disbelief. He unsuccessfully urged Conroy, who had suffered a heart attack several months before and was involved in several urban education projects at the Ed School...
...friend of Conroy's said yesterday that his letters indicated he was appalled at the degree that the Vietnamese bureaucracy, built on the tradition a Vietnamese attitude of deference to superiors, was stifling its educational system...