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...home, the biggest headlines concerned the fire at Our Lady of the Angels grammar school in West Side Chicago, the city's worst fire since the Iroquois Theater holocaust in 1903. In the case of the Berlin story, TIME'S function was to supply the information and intelligence that would help the reader to be knowledgeable about Berlin rather than to fret over it. In the case of the Chicago fire, TIME had another task-to take the facts of tragedy and mold them into a compelling narrative of misfortune and error. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Chicago School...
...rest of this issue fall short, in varying degrees, of the quality of the four pieces mentioned above. Sandy has another poem, "Vale," of "the morning after" variety. Some good metaphors lose out to bad ones and hazy grammar. "We See No Phoenix," by Jonathan Revere, is confused by inconsistent metaphor, though some bright colors and clear rhymes save it from dullness...
...point early in the second quarter, play descended to the grammar-school level, with both teams fumbling the ball around as if it were a live coal. The Crimson had made no first downs (and almost no yardage) in its first five offensive sorties, and general consternation was mounting in the Harvard stands, when suddenly Ravenel shifted his attack into high gear...
...intelligence tests had been developed that could spot a child's ability and bent at three. Children with IQs of 116 and up were sent to state-supported grammar schools; dullards were taught to read, write and play games at common schools. Uplifting leisure activities were planned for bright students, who "no longer need to spend any of their spare time with their families. Their homes have become simply hotels, to the great benefit of the children." Students, of course, received a "learning wage," were members of the B.U.G.S.A. (British Union of Grammar School Attenders...
...martini glasses, for in Holly's transient world, home is wherever one hangs one's hangover. Into Holly's rowdy parties troop the well-heeled and just plain heels. Among them: a rich, effeminate, gossip-column playboy; a roller-skating coloratura; Holly's cigar-and-grammar-chomping onetime Hollywood agent, who says of her, "She isn't a phony because she's a real phony"; Holly's long-abandoned middle-aged hubby from Tulip, Texas, who reveals her unphony name (Lulamae Barnes) and wonders when she is coming home to him and their...