Word: letters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Austin, Texas, Marie Grace, a stay-at-home mom, serves one day a week on "table time." During a recent visit, she sat at a table with five children and passed out Froot Loops cereal. First the children sorted the cereal by color, then they talked about the letter f and which words begin with f. The students then made a graph showing how many loops of each color they had. Then they made a necklace of the loops and, finally, ate them. When schools can nurture such comprehensive learning in small groups, experts say the results can be excellent...
...wife team, he a Wall Street Journal editor, she a novelist. Their treasury of more than 400 epistles renders a more definitive portrait of America's past 99 years than would all the centennial books laid decade to decade. Some entries are moving (Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter from a Birmingham, Ala., jail), some comical (fugitive Clyde Barrow's 1934 note to Henry Ford, praising his "dandy" V8 getaway car). They add up to an exceptional bedside companion...
Very rarely do I read anything that justifies writing a letter to the editor. However, William P. Bohlen's piece on Max Patkin (Sports, Nov. 3) was a delight. Bohlen depicted Patkin and his antics in a vivid and nostalgia-provoking manner. Even those who had never seen his performance--which I consider myself fortunate to have done on several occasions--could truly picture one of baseball's "greats." I wish mainstream media sources had taken the same time that you obviously did. Nice work...
...With a letter of admission and Harvard no longer his most-recent employer, he was able to find a security guard job again and begin to finance his education...
...love letter to New York City and, more so, to Jennifer Love Hewitt, this spinoff of the wheezing Party of Five captures both in luminous visuals--the pilot looks as if it cost as much as a full season of That '70s Show. But the writing seems decidedly more cut-rate. Hewitt's Sarah Merrin heads east to find her biological father and take a bite out of the Big Apple, dropping Holly Golightly-isms like, "Give me one good reason why I should not spend the night dancing!" This star vehicle, thus far, is a shiny subway to nowhere...