Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relaxation and the removal of the cause of stress. Harold Queen has prescribed such a treatment for his son. This week they will go up to their new home in Lincolnville, Me. Richard has never seen the house, but he is eager to try the salmon fishing in Duck Trap Stream, which runs behind...
...says Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz. Since then, a series of decisions, including several this term, has virtually shredded the doctrine of governmental immunity. A boon to citizens, perhaps, but a threat to already overloaded dockets. In Owen vs. City of Independence, the court refused to allow municipalities to duck certain civil rights suits by trotting out the defense that their employees had acted in "good faith." Then, in Maine vs. Thiboutot, the Justices ruled that under a Reconstruction era act, individuals could sue a state or one of its officers if they claimed that their rights under any federal...
...severe scrutiny and demanding standards of taste. One foreman told the story of a large window produced to the order of a rich client; it was intended to represent the view from the client's front porch. The customer declared himself delighted, but added, "I want a duck, right there in the middle of the picture." Tiffany indignantly said that a duck would not fit the composition. Said the client: "I paid for that window, and I want a duck." Tiffany glared at him, turned and smashed the window into fragments. -By A. T. Baker
...success was short-lived and Murton remains bitter about the state of American prisons. "You don't put a duck in a sandbox to improve his swimming. You can't reform with this system. How is a prisoner supposed to learn democracy and decision-making in a totalitarian, fascist system? And then everyone's surprised when an ex-con fails and winds up back in prison...
...saying, "Teaching occurs behind closed doors." But theory, some of it foolish and damaging, inexorably seeps under the doors and into the classrooms. For example, the sound idea that teachers should concentrate on whetting the interests of students and stirring creativity has been unsoundly used as an excuse to duck detailed schoolwork. Says Columbia's Teachers College Professor Diane Ravitch: "It is really putting things backward to say that if children feel good about themselves, then they will achieve. Instead, if children are learning and achieving, then they feel good about themselves." Ravitch believes U.S. education has suffered much...