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Most people around NSCAR limit their vocabulary to expressions like "build the action, cram those buses down their throats, win the rights of Black children to attend any school they want, and smash the racist offensive;" issues such as the maintenance of bilingual education programs after desegregation, the elimination of "tracking" in schools, and the quality of the Boston educational system as a whole are said to be "counterposed, used as a screen, or distracting from the real issue." For worse, or for better, NSCAR is headed towards a May 17th demonstration around three slogans, and if my guess...
...disciple." She then criticizes the film for straying from a strict Laingian analysis and plunges in the final stake by rejecting the movie because she rejects Laing's view of society. Kael has simply missed the point. She tries to transform Cassavetes's film into a celluloid peg and cram it into a neat intellectual hole. But the movie doesn't fit and neither does the man. Neither is quite so neat, articulate or peggable...
...Poverty a doomed effort from the start because it gave the poor authority without a power base. He also opposes school busing as a means of integration because no consensus for it exists. "If you want it, fine-go out and convince enough people. But you can't cram it down their throats...
Understanding the changes that have taken place inside the sleek temples of modern finance would require a cram course in the complex ways of banking. Fortunately Martin Mayer has done the necessary homework for interested laymen: he offers a clear, detailed and well-paced book about one of the nation's least understood institutions...
...leftist center. Of course, the students are older than Americans, and selected by their co-workers, and many of them know what they want to do afterwards and just why they're in school. But it's still a bit disconcerting to ask if Chinese students ever cram for exams and hear that though they're very dedicated, Futan University, "mindful of our health," sees that they...