Word: homework
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bassani floats along after his young characters on their Majno bicycles, quietly following the street maps of their days. With unobtrusive skill, he delineates the delicate social patterns that emerge from shared seats and invitations to do homework together. The hierarchical distinctions in his small city are minute. Many of them are noted by the loquacious Pulga. On first viewing the narrator's graceful patrician house, the boy cries, "Twenty rooms! I can imagine what it must cost to heat them." So realistic a thought has never occurred to the narrator, who lives in an insulated world of private...
...rational response to all this seemingly nonsensical noise is to ignore both sides and either follow the football team or do your Mongolian homework...
...SUGAR DAN. He and his wife Loretta completed high school equivalency courses at the college and now are among about 40 people who have graduated into the col lege's regular curriculum. "They don't want to be patronized," says Bruce Bauer. "They really do their homework and some of our kids are hard put to keep up with them...
...Tell Reader Carol Keough to fret no longer about discrimination appearing in math problems. Women's Lib is snowing up at the college level. Here is the kind of math homework my son struggles with...
...weaknesses: he is considered a bit overgenteel for higher political office. Nonetheless, his seniority makes Reuss an odds-on favorite to succeed 78-year-old Wright Patman as chairman of the powerful Banking Committee. It would be a fitting reward for a patient Congressman who has consistently done his homework...