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Long looks down at her maroon Doc Martens, shrugs her shoulders and sighs...
Patrice Edwards teaches second grade at Beecher Elementary, a public school in New Haven, Conn., where most of her students wear maroon-plaid uniforms. That's the first indication that something unusual is going on. Here's the second: on a recent September morning, as the 25 children in Edwards' class sat cross-legged on the floor passing a big blue ball around, they whispered compliments to each other. "You're a nice speller." "You've got pretty handwriting." "You are a good artist." A soothing calm settled in the room. For the moment, traditional academics were nowhere...
...played baseball until dusk, and then I read. I read before dinner, after dinner, even during dinner if my sister and I were feuding. (The pages of certain volumes from my childhood are maroon with catsup stains.) When I was especially tired or restless, I reread, with the result that I can still recite passages of Johnny Tremain and The Willie Mays Story from memory...
...survey of song titles from her 1992 Blue Note album, Maroons, reflects the contemporary images that inform Allen's playing: "Mad Money," "Feed the Fire," "Brooklyn Bound `A'," and "Bed-Sty." The liner notes to that album include Greg Tate's poem "Maroon To Reign (terrain)," which echoes Allen's preoccupation with the troubled world of today's Black America...
Pasquarello said police recovered the stolensack of cash and several firearms from thewould-be getaway car, a four-door maroon 1991Buick Century. Ballistic tests identified theweapons as a .357 magnum, a 9-millimeter pistol,and a Tech 9 semiautomatic weapon. The weaponswere fully loaded...