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...cold. Most people think it has the flu. It certainly doesn't have the pneumonia that the commission suggested." According to the College Board, SAT scores seem to have stabilized, and students have taken an increasing number of academic courses in each of the past six years. LeRoy Hay, chairman of the Manchester (Conn.) High School English department and 1983 National Teacher of the Year, said, "The recommendations are responsive to what used to be. We have begun to stress excellence once again...
Instead of joking for lawyers, the writers joke about lawyers, including their less well-rounded fellow students who wear white socks with loafers. Rob Okun delivers some of the play's best lines as Leroy Fibre, the class dweeb. He gives Thornbook a rubber chicken as part of some arcane Ames competition ritual and lamely jokes about fondling it. Thornbook stares him down, and Okun stammers out, a la Jerry Lewis and Peter Lorre, "I really didn't fondle it; I only said that to impress...
...class of '32. In my day we enjoyed the unexcelled band leadership of Leroy Anderson, recently honored by the Varsity Club. Anderson was brilliantly inventive and such qualities are inimitable. But he had one basic concept which requires no genius at all: that the proper function of a musical organization is to make music...
...head for Florida in brand-new campers; the congregations of small country churches are dwindling; Trappist monks are admired for not putting preservatives in their bread; and a disabled truck driver passes the time needlepointing a Star Trek pillow cover while his wife lifts weights. A story that begins "Leroy Moffitt's wife, Norma Jean, is working on tier pectorals" is a story whose second line is guaranteed to be read...
...peace group Pax Christi. They have been encouraged by the example of Pope John Paul II, who has made the abolition of nuclear war a central theme of his papacy and who last year made a pilgrimage to the memorial at Hiroshima. Some have gone as far as Bishop Leroy Matthiesen of Amarillo, Texas, who has told those in his diocese not to work at a local nuclear weapons plant. "The possession of nuclear weapons is the same thing as a threat to use them," he argues...