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...indicated that in most of the areas tested-vocabulary, spelling, grammar and math-the pricklies left the gooeys in the dust. However, a more recent local study of comparable New York City neighborhood schools showed gooeys and pricklies scoring about the same. Gooeys consistently argue that standard paper-and-pencil achievement tests are narrow and cannot measure the wide-ranging benefits of their creative approach...
...those quiet rooms with thin venetian blinds, and potted plants for 50 minutes a day, four or five times a week, for five, six or seven years? It is easy to conjure the now hackneyed image of one person sitting in a chair with a pad and pencil while another lies on a couch. It is impossible to imagine what they could talk about for seven years. No one's problems can be that deep...
...these ingredients of the program have been ignored by the President's critics, it is largely because Reagan has emphasized that a window of vulnerability is about to open. "If you believe that the window is anything more than a pencil-and-paper calculation, then it's true this program doesn't go far enough," says William Kincade, executive director of the Washington-based Arms Control Association. "But I don't believe it anyway...
Updike works at home in a semi-attached room that once housed an antiques store. He settles in there each morning by 9, usually writes in pencil on the backs of old manuscripts, then acts as his own typist. He tries to complete three pages a day: "I set that quota for myself many years ago, and it seems to be about right. It's not so much that you're overwhelmed by it, and it's not so little that you don't begin to accumulate a manuscript." After a late lunch around...
This possibility seemed to satisfy Reagan, who began doodling. "Mr. President, I think you need this," said Alexander Haig as he pushed a White House memo pad under the president's pencil...