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...Educational Resources Group (ERG), an offshoot of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, is initiating a plan to provide incoming freshmen with upperclass advisers...
...lots of ways this is an uncomfortable book. It isn't a child's Fairy Tale--too much of the humor of the thing is of a mildly sick adult variety, the degenerate offshoot of upper-middle class Broadway comedy, with its pallid neuroses that all the ashamed afflicted can laugh at. Segal also makes a real effort at verbal acrobatics, and falls flat. "Magic beans, the stuff dreams are made of! And also magic vegetable stew," can't qualify as one of the better bits of verbal word play of the late 20th century...
...program to treat the addicted mother as well as the child is conducted at Mabon House, an offshoot of Odyssey House, on Ward's Island in New York City's East River. Here, 23 parents and children (there are currently two fathers in residence) live in a therapeutic, drug-free community. Mothers work in group nurseries and learn about parenthood through weekly discussions. "I used to take a lot out on my daughter Jennifer," says Dianne Carleton, 21, of Fairfield, Conn. "I started taking 'speed' because I wanted to lose weight, and then went to heroin...
...offshoot of Carbide's farming ventures is a $3.50 toy, "Nature's Window." Marketed by Ideal Toy Corp., it is a kit of seeds and two plastic disks containing a chemical gel that retains water; in it, seeds begin to germinate within a couple of days. By year's end Carbide expects to sell 15 million disks to Ideal...
...TEMPTRESS. The Judaeo-Christian tradition and its offshoot, puritanism, run very deep in Western culture. By the preconceptions of this mentality, Eve is the initial occasion of sin. While women frequently seem like supernumeraries in Arthur Miller's plays, the preface to his distinctly autobiographical drama After the Fall is revelatory. He writes: "After all, the infraction of Eve is that she opened up the knowledge of good and evil. She presented Adam with a choice." The sin then seems to be Eve's, and Adam, we are to assume, would have been better off without a choice...