Word: nostrand
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...Senator Dick Clark. Ahead in the polls so far is Roger Jepsen, 49, a former state senator and two-term Lieutenant Governor who campaigns as "the right Republican." He is opposed to abortion, gun control and the Panama Canal treaties. Carrying the G.O.P. banner of moderation is Maurice Van Nostrand, 53, an ally of popular Governor Robert Ray. Van Nostrand says that a Jepsen-Clark contest would lead to a Republican defeat of Goldwater proportions...
Along with his wife Elaine, Denholtz, 50, who is chief of dental research at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, is the author of a new consumer's guide titled How to Save Your Teeth and Your Money (Van Nostrand Reinhold; $8.95). He chides Americans for spending nearly $9 billion a year on dental care "without the foggiest notion" of what their dentists are doing for them, and estimates that some 6 million people lose perfectly salvageable teeth each year, many at "extraction mills." Writes Denholtz, quoting a Pennsylvania insurance department estimate: 15% of all dentists are "incompetent, dishonest...
...Nostrand, 54, is a graying, bespectacled and energetic Harvard Ph.D. (American literature). He had been lecturing on the American novel for 13 years at Brown when, in 1964, he volunteered for a job that his colleagues regarded with horror-teaching the required freshman writing course. His students, he soon found, often had grammar down cold but were shaky about organizing their ideas. Later, as a communications consultant to various business firms, he noticed that many executives labored over letters and short messages that turned out to be nearly incomprehensible anyway. The professor's prescription was to isolate the steps...
...Nostrand concedes that his drills can be ponderous; his first workbook, he laughs, looked and sounded "like an Army training manual." But students generally find the course helpful. Says Wheaton Freshman Tricia Dunn: "It really makes it clear to me what I'm doing when I sit down to write." Others praise the close supervision, which gives the course the feeling of a private tutorial. Yet the method also has its critics. A common complaint, voiced by another Wheaton student, is that the repetitive drilling can be "a terrific bore and is not exactly creative." Admits Katherine Feeney...
...Nostrand has formed a nonprofit corporation-the Center for Research in Writing-to promote his course, and spends much time pondering new ways to teach writing-and its necessary companion, thinking. "If we could get at what you do when you learn by writing," he muses, "then we'd know how to teach people to think." Anyone for functional thinking...