Word: inventive
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Forcing kids to engage in activities we deem "useful" overlooks each child's uniqueness and denies them the opportunity to learn the lessons of life for them-selves. When we give kids their own time to do what they wish, they become creative and resourceful. They invent, they wonder, they discover. And most importantly, they learn...
...what, except that the author has somewhat lazily not bothered to invent his own central figure? But the burden of the novel is that Luke Fairchild is a monster of charm and talent, adulated for the purity of his counterculture protest. And, as Spencer tells it, he abandons his pregnant girlfriend Esther Rothschild when he hits the big time, and then meanly refuses to acknowledge the resulting child Billy as his own, or to peel off any loot for child support. The story is told by Billy, who, as a teenager and then as an adult, skulks about the edges...
...have got to invent a way to 'act up' withinthe black community...
...question is going to be if I have one when I get married and have kids. I think maybe I'll just get one for myself and put a lock on it and let them watch `Sesame Street' if they ask. It would be cool if I could invent some-thing that would control certain channels coming on at certain times of day, so I could control what my kids were watching...
During the past century Radcliffe's efforts for women's undergraduate education have done more than simply give women access to the Harvard of yesterday. For the past 55 years, Radcliffe has worked with Harvard to invent and build a new undergraduate experience. Radcliffe created the first real space for women's education in Cambridge by bringing Harvard professors to women when Harvard College refused to admit them. Since 1943, undergraduates at Harvard University have had a unique co-educational experience jointly shaped by Harvard and Radcliffe. The full meaning and history of both Colleges are thus intricately tied together...