Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most recent national evaluation, much disputed as to methods, was released in 1977 and indicated that in most of the areas tested-vocabulary, spelling, grammar and math-the pricklies left the gooeys in the dust. However, a more recent local study of comparable New York City neighborhood schools showed gooeys and pricklies scoring about the same. Gooeys consistently argue that standard paper-and-pencil achievement tests are narrow and cannot measure the wide-ranging benefits of their creative approach...
...their great light most writers of another, older sort look pale and foolish. It is not an age of literary craftsmen; most of the wordsmiths (and, lacking ideas, that is what many of them are) are left to moan about bad grammar and teach composition...
...again, but luckily for him, his odd behavior attracts the interest of Lucie, an adolescent schoolgirl (Anne-Laure Meury), who is chipper, commonsensical and utterly charming-the larky heart of the film. For her, his obsession is a game, something to engage her imagination more sportively than the German grammar she's supposed to be studying that afternoon in the park...
Adjustment to life in Cambridge came easily enough--with one possible exception. His support of the city of his birth is well-known--he dedicated one of his books to three teachers from his public grammar school in Queens--and he has maintained a life-long passion for the home team, the New York Yankees. His passion for Joe DiMaggio and those who followed him in pinstripes has not cooled, despite the distinctly hostile surroundings he has lived in for 14 years. Gould has even been known to wear his Yankee cap to lectures, a move many regard...
...spite of the advice given in Debrett's Etiquette and Modern Manners [July 6], the technique for the proper way to eat a pea can be found in these lines remembered from grammar school days...