Word: denning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sample assignment: Write a paragraph on "the advantages of an encyclopedia in every home." The intended reader-an auto mechanic in his 40s, with children. books in his den. and perhaps the question, "With a library down the street, why do we need an encyclopedia?" First, the student must set down short answers to a battery of questions framed in the special Van Nostrand jargon: What is the reader's "frame of reference"? What is the "organizing idea" (theme) of the paragraph? What "set of information" (facts) will be worked into the paragraph? Only after dutifully outlining the requirements...
...Helmut Schmidt-long a robust symbol of stability-was trounced in one of its traditional strongholds: voters in Hesse, angered in part by Bonn's hedging its promise to raise pensions, swept Christian Democratic candidates into office in every major city, including Frankfurt. In The Netherlands, Premier Joop den Uyl's Cabinet collapsed last week after the moderate Christian Democratic members of his coalition refused to endorse sweeping land expropriation measures proposed by Den Uyl and his Socialist Party. In Belgium, Christian Social Premier Leo Tindemans is similarly in trouble with his coalition partners...
...teacher who grades tests and homework at home deduct part of his expenses for maintaining the dwelling. By and large, such deductions are now available only if the home office is a room that is used exclusively as an office-not just a desk or drafting table in the den-and is the taxpayer's "principal place of business." Loss to taxpayers: $207 million...
...cold morning when the toast burns and the child is crying. For centuries, men have told their wives that such problems were not very important, but the novelty is to be patronized by other women for "not doing anything really." Kathy Mertz, who enjoyed serving as a Cub Scout den mother in North Barrington, Ill., particularly resented a newly emancipated part-time secretary who periodically called on her to act as chauffeur for her child. Says Mertz: "She kept telling me that I ought to be 'doing something worthwhile'! What I was doing was giving her child care...
...holes in it to raise blisters, then with a cat-o'-nine-tails. "When de whippin' wit de paddle was over, dey took de cat-o'-nine-tails and busted the blisters. By dis time de blood sometimes would be runnin' down deir heels. Den de next thing was a wash in salt water strong enough to hold up an egg." Then an ex-slave named Lindsey Faucette reported: "Marse never allowed us to be whipped . . . We worked in de day and had de nights to play games and have singin...