Word: lane
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...book's authors, Charles Murray '65 and the late Harvard Professor Richard Herrnstein, have been called "dangerous" (by The New York Times Magazine), "intellectual racists" (by the author Hugh Pearson), and "Neo-Nazis" (by Jeffrey Rosen and Charles Lane of The New Republic...
Blues Before Sunrise begins the album and sets the tone. It's a wary, weary kind of blues, and Clapton puts it over like a man groggy from an overdose of bad luck. By the time he reaches the album's midpoint, James Lane's Blues Leave Me Alone, Clapton has navigated the shoals of despair and is heading for very deep waters. There was a time when he practically lived at those longitudes,but like some explorer using charts from his first voyage, Clapton now tacks with more assurance. He knows the winds, and he's been through...
...just fire me?" asks Al Percolo (Albert Brooks), the downtrodden but game talent hunter in The Scout. "I thought of that," snaps the meanest general manager in baseball history (Lane Smith), "but I like this better." Al is talking about his scouting assignment so deep in the Mexican bush leagues that they play in the rain because it makes sliding easier. There he discovers Steve Nebraska (Brendan Fraser), a phenom with a fast ball so potent it knocks over the catcher and the umpire. Steve is in dire need of an understanding father figure -- especially after he gets...
...Oralism was only sporadically successful, and schools that subscribed to it or to related techniques found that students still learned ASL on the sly. "Try as they might, they were unable to stamp out sign language," says Northeastern University linguist Harlan Lane, author of The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community. Yet "signing" would wait another century for its renaissance: in the 1960s, when linguists certified it as just as autonomous, flexible and rich as English, it became the core of an identity movement that still flourishes today. More than half a million ASL speakers -- a group sometimes plagued...
...students with disabilities from special schools and seeding them through regular classes, may be counterproductive for the deaf. They cannot be expected simply to "pick up" English from their new classmates; and yet removing them from an all-deaf environment may prevent them from picking up ASL. Northeastern's Lane talks grimly of their "drowning in the mainstream." Total communication, which asked teachers to sign ASL and speak English simultaneously, although once popular, seems in decline. Cued speech, essentially lipreading enhanced with explanatory gestures, has a small group of enthusiastic backers. Even Bienvenu champions "bilingual- bicultural" education (Bi-Bi), which...