Word: dann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johnny starts his algebra at the age of eight this year, why then Tommy will start his at the age of seven next. Have we all gone just a little bit mad?" asks Physician Thomas Charles Dann in a current issue of the British Medical Journal...
...Dann, who is the resident physician at Britain's University of Warwick, recently discovered that friends were giving their ten-year-old son a sleeping tablet because the youngster was too restless and exhausted to go to sleep even at 11 p.m. The boy had to do two hours of homework every night, attended choir practice until 9:30 p.m. twice a week, and also went to school on Saturday mornings...
...school in this case happened to be a local prep academy that tries hard to make its students eligible for scholarships to Britain's more prestigious private schools. But Dann says that the problem of overworking youngsters is almost as bad in Britain's state-run public schools. The trouble is, he notes, "parents feel they must get the most out of their children, and they never stop to count the cost. How can anyone ever justify inducing insomnia in a ten-year...
High-potential freshmen sprinters Paul Tosetti, Mark Greenberg and Dave Rowe, along with sophomore Rick Nance, will all be running in the 880 sprint relay, and their performances will be watched closely. Nance and Jeff Dann will be running the 220 legs in the sprint medley relay, and they too will be scrutinized...
PAYDAY chronicles 36 hours in the life of a minor country-and-western singer called Maury Dann, a sort of Orpheus pretending who boozes, wenches pops pills and passes along the old payola. As played and sung by Rip Torn -eyes bulging, teeth bared until they look like a couple of upended harmonicas-he seems less gifted in music than m hog calling. Like A Face in the Crowd, Payday tries hard to be about the spiritual bankruptcy of American life, but Director Daryl Duke emulates only the hysteria, not the theatrical fervor, of the 1957 Kazan film. The wretched...