Word: far-out
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...fake Peace Corps journal instead of having geography class; or making an avant-garden environment form Daddy's old cigars and cigar boxes, instead of painting a picture of the most exciting day of the summer vacation. Not that Herndon didn't put in his time dreaming up far-out schemes to hold his student's attention. He had his class pretend to be Tutankhamen's favorite embalmer, and also write an account. But Herndon is among the first to see that kids find such gimmicks just as odious as the "busy work" of former days...
...school that does not practice racial segregation. A law recently enacted in Maryland provides "scholarships" ranging up to $200 a year for a child from a poor family; Minnesota has passed a similar law. Embraced by groups ranging from free-enterprise conservatives to parents with kids in far-out private "free" schools, vouchers might be found constitutional since, like bus fares and textbooks, they would directly benefit individual children, not church school systems...
Though it is too early to gauge the full effects of the broadcast ad ban, tobacco executives as yet feel no need to resort to such far-out expedients. Under relentless attack from critics, the tobacco industry withstood the 1970 recession better than almost any other U.S. business. New York's First National City Bank reported last week that seven tobacco companies raised their after-tax profits by a total of 19% last year, the second largest gain among 41 industries in the Citibank survey (the leader: amusement companies). The rise stemmed largely from successful diversification that has taken...
America has not cooled down-it is seething and searching, but way down deep now, in the area that reporters and journalists don't see. We need gut answers, not a rehash of what the far-out few are doing about "cooling it." Where do we get them...
...heaven, upon the great white bird that takes Watkins there-in other words upon some ultimate metaphysical truth-Miss Lessing stakes her faith in the future. Her self-absorption is both irritating and fascinating as she gambles at the borderline of sanity, just as she once gambled at the far-out edges of politics...