Word: dropouts
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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...
...Pravda this month published an unusually candid article by Russian Education Minister Mikhail Prokofiev, who charged that the vast Soviet school system is not only seriously deficient in science and math teaching, but is mired in a rigid "bookism" that makes learning a bore and produces an alarming dropout rate...
...result, says Prokofiev, is that many students are convinced "that they are not receiving any profound and lasting education. They want to quit." The dropout rate has reached the point where 30% of the pupils who enter first grade do not finish eighth. In some regions, half of those who finish eighth grade fail to enter the two-year high schools. And of those who finish high school, only 20% are interested enough to go on to universities and the professional institutes...
...Neil Simon's idea of Paradise. The eternal female drives his characters nuts. In The Odd Couple, a pair of poker-playing middle-agers fled their wives to room together in bachelor bliss. In The Star-Spangled Girl, a pair of post-Ivy League rebels share a dropout of an apartment with penurious satisfaction until a girl who looks like a whipped-cream frappé shows up to curdle their...
...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...