Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATORI IN PARIS, by Jack Kerouac. An account of a beat writer's ribald search for some noble French ancestors, told with gusto and amusing dropout grammar...
...look up this old name of mine, which is just about three thousand years old and was never changed in all that time, as who would change a name that simply means House (Ker), in the Field (Ouac)." Yet the bounce and burble of Kerouac's gusto and dropout grammar carry the reader along his wacky safari. Actually, Kerouac claims that it was less safari than satori (the Japanese zen term for sudden illumination), although it is not clear just what the satori conveyed...
N.E.T. JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "A Second Chance" describes the helping hand extended to youngsters at the Job Corps' center in New Bedford, Mass., focusing on a 17-year-old Puerto Rican high school dropout from New York City and the Job Corps' effect on his life...
...tension Negro section of Los Angeles that erupted in fierce rioting a year and a half ago, measurable progress is almost impossible to discern. Local officials have done almost nothing, and the federal program has bogged down in red tape. Although there are job-training classes in Watts, the dropout rate is almost 50%. Small wonder. The curriculum, which includes such subjects as termite control and motorcycle repair, scarcely seems tailored to the Watts job market. Last summer, when it was feared that Watts would erupt again, federal officials earmarked $262,000 for "Operation Cool-It," aimed at shifting...
...Lurleen was a dime store clerk who married at 16, do we have a high school dropout for Governor...