Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short. They reflect American life. An American Note may simply relate a funny or poignant incident, but it usually has some special significance. It may be a minor vignette or a brief comment on a major event; it may underscore the important or puncture the absurd. "The ideal item," says Nation Editor Jason McManus, "contains a moral, or a quality of fable, or the nucleus of some atom of the national mood...
...like to think of the feature as a kind of conversation by and about the American community. As such, American Notes juxtapose the offbeat with more conventional subjects. Last week, for instance, the item about a storekeeper so riled by robberies that he let rattlesnakes loose in his shop was more than an oddity; it was a commentary on a frame of mind. This week's account of a union's troubles with its own unionized employees deals with the ultimate possibilities of such a paradox...
Squeezed by money problems, U.S. campuses from Yale to Vanderbilt are trimming scholarships for needy students, who now must borrow more, work more or quit college. The University of Pennsylvania is an agonized example. In the past 13 years, scholarships have grown faster than any single item in its budget-from $2 million to $14 million. They have helped Penn to increase its mix of black and poor students. But Penn is running a $1.9 million budget deficit. As a result, it is eliminating 57 of the 867 scholarships it now offers freshmen...
...Steam fitters everywhere can be thankful that the writer of the item on apprentice examinations [March 1] has nothing to do with writing those exams...
...manufacturers have received a few complaining letters, including one that scolded: "You cannot rank the Republic and this person together." Nonetheless, BB's bust is expected to become a priority item in mayors' budgets-after this week's municipal elections are over. In return for lending her figure to France, Bardot has been given one of the busts and has mounted it over...