Word: following
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University failed to follow a consistent policy in responding to the two charges against Loury. And while consistency can be foolish, it would have been a virtue in this instance. Having said nothing about taking charges of assaulting a woman serioulsy, the University should not have said they were bothered by charges of drug use. This means either the University feels charges of drug use are more serious--in which case the University should rethink its moral judgments--or the University does not realize that its response to such matters is taken by the community as an expression...
...then, to break the psychological impasse? One way is to follow a strategy called intervention, which was pioneered in the early 1960s by Vernon Johnson, an Episcopal priest in a Minneapolis suburb. In intervention, family members, friends and co-workers directly confront the alcoholic to shatter his carefully nurtured self-delusions. Beforehand they meet with a specially trained counselor (the fee: $500 to $750) to rehearse. In the actual confrontation, the alcoholic is presented with a tough but sympathetic portrayal of the mess he is in and is urged to accept prearranged admission to a treatment center, often...
Egerton's book is a tough act to follow, even for Craig Claiborne and Paul Prudhomme. Craig Claiborne's Southern Cooking (Times Books; 364 pages; $19.95) is engaging and low key. The New York Times food editor was born in Mississippi, where his mother ran a boardinghouse. Many of these recipes were hers; others were suggested by Claiborne's friends and colleagues. Dishes range from soul to stylish Creole. Among them are such classics as fried chicken and beaten biscuits, as well as what Claiborne bills as "nouveau Southern," charcoal-grilled stuffed quail. Too bad he couldn't resist cliched...
...sense immediately that circumstances are going to make them strange bedfellows in a motel hell. You know, too, that much worse will follow as this misalliance uses all the modes of transportation specified in the title (plus such unnamed delights as a farm truck, a refrigerator truck and a bus that grinds to an unpleasant halt) in the desperate effort to get home. We are also aware of two agreeable things about Hughes. The first is that he has a nice, easy gift for unforced farce (see Ferris Bueller's Day Off). The other is that his teen romances...
...parliamentary approval to serve another two years. Reports circulating in Belgrade say Mikulic is seeking a successor to enable him to step down. Many citizens openly yearn for a leader with the vision to revamp the sclerotic Communist hierarchy and loosen controls over politics and the economy. That would follow the astonishing growth of press freedom and other rights that have blossomed since Tito's death. But no leader short of a new Tito may be able to advance bold new reforms or successfully end Yugoslavia's crisis...