Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because we graduate with a Harvard diploma, the world is supposed to be our oyster; but who besides us actually gets this precious opportunity? Does everybody have the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" that we do, or must one meet a prerequisite of affluence and education first? Harvard students seem to become members of an educational elite when they graduate, but the majority of them were part of it before they set foot on campus...
...English-language children and non-English speakers are mixed together, with half the curriculum taught in a foreign language and half taught in English. In Chicago five years ago, there were three such schools teaching in Spanish and English; today there are 20. In the District of Columbia, the Oyster Bilingual Elementary School is a pioneer in two-way education. Its student body is 58% Hispanic, 26% white, 12% black and 4% Asian, and after six years of Spanish-English curriculum, its sixth-graders score at a ninth-grade level in reading and a 10th-grade level in math...
...featured acts took the stage: The Outlaws, Rick Derringer The Guess Who, Eddie Money, John Anderson and Doug Kershaw. Blue Oyster Cult, also scheduled to play, left before performing amid rumors of a fistfight...
...front in a visible waybecause we are not perceived as poor and becausepeople think of our students as having the worldas their oyster," Carnesale says...
Edmunds often moves to formal verse in his longer pieces in The High Road to Taos, , resorting to trite rhyme schemes like, "Farewell, my love, goodbye/Red wine, and oyster pie..." The feeling of spontaneity in exploring a single image, taking a break from the main road is lost. While several small moments of impact may be contained within a single poem, they cannot save the whole from fragmentation...