Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember walking in my backyard when I was three and thinking about God. Looking at the green grass and the moss on a stone--that's all I can remember, but somehow it was very proto-spiritual." Twentieth-century Harvard produces few Calvinist theologians, but this morning it will graduate one Charles Dana Klingensmith...
...didn't watch TV" And in a state described on its "Welcome to West Virginia" border signs as "The Closest P'ace to Heaven," a state where a town of 3000 might boast a dozen churches. Klingensmith learned about God, in the backyard with the moss and the grass, and in a relatively liberal Methodist congregation...
Reagan advocates returning control of education "to a grass roots level" both financially and legally, but members of the Ed School believe that the federal government should continue to fund education and offer strong leadership in the area of civil rights. While Administration officials argue for state autonomy and economic recovery through budget cuts. Ed School officials contend that American education is collapsing. "Our friend Mr. Reagan took over and it's been a disaster ever since." Paul N. Lydia, dean of the Ed School, comments...
...Reagan's proposal last April for a summit meeting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and his speech at Illinois' Eureka College-his alma mater-outlining proposals for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) with the Soviet Union. Reagan's address was partly in response to a growing grass-roots sentiment for a freeze on nuclear weapons. Six days after he returns from Europe, the President will visit the United Nations in New York City to address a special General Assembly session on disarmament...
...aide at a nearby school. Together they earn $40,000 a year. They live with their eight-year-old son Peter in a handsomely renovated Victorian house in a wealthy suburb of Chicago. They have a new car and a new kitchen, and their lawn has no crab grass. Peter has just learned to do handstands. They look like the All-American Family living the All-American Dream. They are also broke. They are not only broke, but $18,000 in debt. "The question is," says Jane, a pug-nosed brunette in preppy red wrap-around skirt, "shall...