Word: joans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time of new differentiations between the normal and the abnormal, and thus of radical new forms of social regulation. Instead of regarding the insane as possessors of a special kind of knowledge, as the Middle Ages did, the Age of Reason locked them up and silenced them. Today Joan of Arc would be treated with Thorazine. Yet Foucault not only insisted that the changing definitions of insanity are arbitrary, but that they also define sanity and, indeed, reason itself. And those definitions also change...
When Landry sat down, fellow attackers--Louy Meachem, up from J.V., Sarah Chubb, Cat Ferrante, Barb Mahon, Joan Gould, and Jenny Rayport--sprayed 30 shots at Yale netminder, Mary Bartlett, three of which ended up in the twines...
...Joan Anderson Swafford Nashville...
...DISTAR program after three months. Says she: "I didn't like the robot, parroting answers the students had to give. " Yet DlSTAR's striking results led San Diego Superior Court Judge Louis Welsh last year to request the program to help upgrade minority schools. Joan Gutkin, Follow Through coordinator at New York's P.S. 1 37, points out that 70% of her second-graders in 1980 scored above the 50th percentile on the California Achievement Test, in contrast to only 1 8% of the children in a comparable school. Says she: "I can guarantee that every child...
This is an accurate and a scary definition of Southern California or at least one regularly suggsted by the other writers of that place--Joan Didion, Raymond Chandler, and Ross McDonald. It thus qualifies as classically American, written with the speculative range, freedom of imagination, and fierce, clear eye that have invigorated this country's proudest works. the verse is clean, quiet, and lapidary; all the excitement is in watching McMichael take up one "unpoetic" subject after another and illuminate it; he turns all the world on the emotions of a child who is trying to find out what...