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...endorsed the Citizens Crime Watch in Dade County, whose members call police when spotting a crime and "armed with pencils and notebooks ... jot down details." You may prefer to have a notebook by your bed when some drugged-up nut kicks down your door, but I'll stick to my .357 magnum...
...crime in progress, he telephones the police as well as his block captain and two other volunteers. Each of those three calls another three members, and so on until all the volunteers in the neighborhood are notified. Armed with pencils and notebooks instead of .38s, the crime watchers jot down details of the crime and suspects before the police arrive. Local authorities give the program high marks. "It's fantastic," says one South Miami policeman. "I wish I had a hundred of them." And without guns, the C.C.W. manages to be the area's most genuine example...
...notes briskly, "I cannot imagine your having the time" to read all 77 pages on the Emperor Augustus, but he adds: "One document, however, you must read, the Res Gestae of Augustus." The teaching texts frequently direct students to consult particular portions of their main source books, or to jot down answers to questions. Maryland University and Broadcasting Center officials, who jointly direct the nonprofit N.U.C., say that many adults prefer such guided study at home to night-school classes. Observes Frederick Breitenfeld Jr., executive director of the Broadcasting Center: "N.U.C. courses look better and better compared with three nights...
...come to a dead standstill, however, and the record of the trends and tendencies of the brief post-'60s period has become clear enough. So has the fact that the record is shot through with perplexing contradictions. Any attentive observer could jot down a fast thumbnailer...
...silent years Olsen must have read in every spare moment, laboriously copying what mattered to her, especially the phrases, sentences and paragraphs relating to her own blocked aspirations. In the brief hesitations between typing and ironing, cleaning, mending, tending to and fending for she must have rushed occassionally to jot down in hurried bursts the flashes, the sparks of insight which, though not then able to mature, could, in later years when she did have time, at least suggest directions of thought. The depth of the three essays included in Silences, her latest work reflects the wisdom she gained over...