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...traditional arguments about Salesman is whether its diction is failed lyricism or failed realism. But it is neither: its first director, Elia Kazan, says it is written "just off the real." Miller's people are first-and second-generation Americans who have yet to achieve a perfect-pitch imitation of standard American brag, bluff and bluster; their language is thus a precise and moving metaphorical expression of the uneasiness with which they live in the American dream they have not quite assimilated. By touching this language with the accents of Brooklyn's old ethnic neighborhoods, this company simultaneously...
...kindergarteners unless they can meet certain standards: they should be able to follow simple verbal directions, know at least ten letters of the alphabet, write numbers up to ten as well as their first name, and recite a four-line nursery rhyme. Results of the reforms: scores on the California Achievement Test have gone up 13% for first-graders and 24% for second-graders, but 15% of first-and second-graders have been kept back. Hawkins is unapologetic. Says he: "Retention is not necessarily destructive to self-image. If you really want to see trauma, go to a high school...
...types, a footprint, and threads from the doctor's pajama top, horrified grand jurors. Mac-Donald apparently had bludgeoned Colette and Kimberly and held two-year-old Kristen across his lap to stab her. At his rial delayed almost five years by appeals, he was found guilty of first-and second-degree murder. MacDonald is now serving three consecutive life terms in a Texas federal prison, where he furiously maintains his innocence...
...political polling firm to survey the attitudes of potential jurors toward each side's arguments. This technique, like those pioneered by liberal lawyers during the political trials of the 1970s, provided a demographic profile of the kind of jurors MCI should seek: self-made and competitive people, intelligent, first-and second-generation Americans, susceptible to arguments that mighty AT&T had been unfair...
...trend seems to have surfaced first-and most elegantly-in San Francisco, where in 1976 Robert and Marily Kavanaugh opened an establishment in a tiny Victorian mews house off Union Street, calling itself simply the Bed and Breakfast Inn. Today there are 15 B & Bs around San Francisco, and their rooms (generally $40 to $80 per night) are tougher to book than space at the city's large luxury hotels, especially on weekends...