Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Student/Parent Mock Election, started eight years ago by a New York City educator named Gloria Kirshner, is designed to encourage grammar and high school students to discuss the issues and get into the habit of voting. "I wanted to help young people feel they can control their own destinies, as well as the destiny of their nation," Kirshner says. "It's the same sense of powerlessness that keeps some people from voting that also leads many students to drop out of school." Two million participated in the program in 1984, and this year many more are expected to take...
Kurt Cambell, a lecturer on public policy at the Kennedy School, noted that South Africa spends 14 times as much money per white grammar school student as on each Black student...
Listen to what Wolfe himself writes about that heady time, when clever skill was the writer's champagne. A writer could break all rules, make up words that had never been heard before and get away with it--yes, even get praised for it! Take grammar and fly in the face of tradition. Everything's new in society, but this stuff, this journalism, this is New. Then, The Novel was receding into the novel, and journalism was becoming New Journalism...
...five, and while one child stayed with his mother, Hanks and two others went with his father, who married a woman with five children of her own. Other divorces followed for both parents, and by the time he was ten, says Hanks wryly, "I had three mothers, five grammar schools and ten houses." His own first marriage, which produced two children, also ended in divorce, and only last April, Hanks married his second wife, Actress Rita Wilson, whom he had met while filming Volunteers...
...remember my greatest day as a whiffle ball hitter-pitcher. It was a day when Jim and I went down to challenge two other guys from my grammar school, Matt and Kevin. Matt and Kevin lived far away, speaking in relative Bronx terms. Their houses were at least 10 blocks away. It was like the Yankees traveling to Tiger Stadium in Detroit...