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...quick snack and takes a nap for an hour or so. Then promptly at 5, he packs up his books again and heads off to a second school, where he studies until 9. Back home once more, he locks himself in his room for two hours of homework, including one with a private tutor. Not until midnight is little Haruo, 11, finally allowed to turn out his light. Says he, wearily: "I'm happy only when I hop into...
...Winter's Tale has quite a number of obsolete or arcane terms that occur nowhere of obsolete or arcane terms that occur nowhere else in Shakespeare--such as neb, hoxes, callet, losel, pugging, dibble, caddises, barne, and pettitoes. Are these to be thrown out too? Let audiences do their homework, or suffer the consequences. (Some years back, Robert Graves announced that he was preparing a text of Hamlet with all the old words updated. Fortunately I never saw either him or the result. Graves indeed are fitting places for such scoundrels...
...carries an extra in his briefcase for a midday change. He has been given a bunch of fancy robes for his new swimming pool, but he prefers an old red terry-cloth number. His blue leather chair from Alexandria is the one he seeks out at night for his homework. If he has a favorite musical number, it is probably Oklahoma! Judging by his reaction to movies this year, That's Entertainment is at the top of his list. He does not watch much television, but if he had to vote he would no doubt cast his ballot...
Traumatic Results. Some instructors give homework assignments. Phelps and Austin tell their students to ask for only 50 cents' worth of gas at the filling station, then demand that the attendant wash the car windows. Or they suggest that students request a demonstration of a product in a department store and then walk away without buying...
...another "expert" on education! Alas, Caroline Bird's homework was not well done, as your reviewer implied it was. Students are not locked into majors in their freshman year; they change majors as fast as the utility companies change rates...