Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of report embassy security officers detest. A warning that tells you everything and nothing. Nevertheless, extra guards were posted at the front and back of the building, and nervous security officers convinced their ambassador, Prudence Bushnell, to fire off a letter to Albright warning that the embassy was vulnerable to car bombs. But Nairobi's remained low on the priority list of embassies due for major security upgrades...
Robert Calfee, dean of the education school at the University of California at Riverside, often carries a satchel filled with contemporary children's books, the kind that win the prestigious Caldecott or Newbery awards. "Less than 10% of teachers are aware of them or buy them," he observes. According to the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance (N.C.B.L.A.), 48 states don't require children's literature training for state certification. What's more, the budget cuts of the 1980s left a quarter of all American schools without libraries and many of those remaining manned by untrained volunteers...
...DANILO PEREZ Central Avenue (Impulse) Perez, a pianist, is after a kind of musical Creole, mixing straight-ahead bop with motifs from Cuba, Brazil and his native Panama--all at once! Central Avenue may not be the year's most coherent album, but it's emblematic of the new, more supple, more eclectic brand of fusion that's enriching jazz...
...prescription pad. For the next six years, my parents told me I was taking a vitamin supplement. I'm still paying for what this garbage did to my system--and I'm 38. I've seen true, medically hyperactive kids. I wasn't one of them. What kind of society is it in which so many of us take the easiest option and drug our children with a substance we don't yet fully understand? THOMAS WHEELER Tucson, Ariz...
...quiet if I really concentrate I can conjure up those feelings again. I've noticed you have a deep affection for the word "hip." You say it pretty often. I get the feeling that you secretly mean "hep"--something about the way you use the word belies a kind of nostalgia for hepness. Probably because you use the word "cool" in its vicinity. "Cool" like "hep," jazzy, zoot suity, snapping fingers, loose at the wrist, scatty...