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Bottom of Ladder Sharp...
...definite ladder will be drawn up, however, until the golfers have played qualifying rounds at Duke University over spring vacation. Because of an unusually large number of contenders for positions on the team, coach Welland is taking about seven more men to Duke than he has in the past...
Room for Bloom. The new way, geared to individual differences, is to banish formal grades and group children according to performance. Instead of grades one to six. Maple Park confronts a child with a ig-rung ladder-19 "levels"' of scholastic achievement. The object is to let the child climb at his own pace, moving from one level to the next not by a fixed calendar but according to his achievement. He is always in a homogeneous class of the same general ability, even though the other children may be younger or older...
...drunk. But he is almost always in a "delicate condition,'' and when he is in a delicate condition he is apt to do any tomfool thing that happens to cross his mind. One morning, sick of looking at a neighbor's purple house, Papa grabs a ladder and-splat! the neighbor's house is painted white. One afternoon, annoyed when a drugstore proprietor bullies the errand boy, Papa yanks out his checkbook, buys the store, makes the errand boy the boss and the boss the errand boy. And one fine day, when his daughter falls...
...magnum opus of The Jacob's Ladder is "During the Eichman Trial." Its 165 lines view the tragedy of Eichman's life from several perspectives, all of which lead the reader ineluctably to the same realization...