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Depression can so severely curtail the gifted student's academic function- ing that he has to dropout, he continued. "Thus, the intra-psychic gap between his ideal image of self and his real image leads to a gap between his intellectual potential and performance," he said...
...nature of work should be redefined," he said. "Students should be paid for studying, in addition to having free tuition." Such pay would be an inducement to economically-disadvantaged students not to leave school, he said." A 16-year-old dropout who's working and making enough money to buy clothes and look nice on a date won't give that up to go back to school," he said...
...contemporary man, says the Rev. Richard McFarland of Washington's Dumbarton Methodist Church. Accordingly, he is as likely to use a passage from Camus or Albee as a parable to bring home to his congregation an aspect of God's message. Well aware that pulpit time is dropout time for many churchgoers, more and more ministers are not only turning to secular sources as an inspiration for sermons but are trying more dramatic ways to vary the format of their preaching...
...efforts have centered around the fact that Miles has a 25 per cent dropout rate each year because of inadequate high school training in basic skills. "I found that I was putting more and more time into Miles until I reached the point that I could not do that and continue at Harvard," Monro said. "I made my decision to leave last spring," he added, "and gave Harvard a year's notice to arrange for a successor. I couldn't be happier with the man who will be recommended to the overseers as my successor...
What happens is that a high school dropout roars through town on a motorcycle stolen from a friend, and stops long enough to rape a harmless local halfwit. No one cares very much, but gentle ripples of consequence eventually reach the local newspaper editor, a shopkeeper, a waitress, an "alienated" college professor and his wife Charlotte, who is one of those beautiful, charming, spontaneous nature girls so dear to the hearts of intellectual novelists. The sparse action is accompanied by heavy circular symbolism: the motorcycle wheels, the twister, Charlotte's abandoned whirling dance, bees circling around the half...