Word: pens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Without a word, you surrender your pen and note pad to him. He writes...
...pen is mightier than the sword -- and maybe even more enduring than the nuclear missile. Wisconsin-based Parker Pen is offering a line of pens composed partly of metal from American and Soviet missiles decommissioned in the wake of arms agreements between the two superpowers. Half the sales price of the pens will go to the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, a charity for victims of catastrophes around the world. Parker, whose pens have been used to sign the arms-control treaties, is offering a range of instruments from a humble ball-point...
...listen well, and march simple sentences usefully across a flat place. This is not new information to those who read his 1983 best seller, Blue Highways, a marvelously quirky account of a 13,000-mile side-roads motor ramble around the U.S. He is better known by his pen name, William Least Heat- Moon, which comes from the Osage Indian part of his heritage. His father was Heat-Moon, meaning July, the hot month; his older brother Little Heat- % Moon; and he himself last and Least. To avoid explaining all of this repeatedly on his reporting meanders, he goes...
Curious, I slunk into Revolution Books armed with my reporter's notebook, my power pen and my stoic journalist expression, prepared for a smooth and meaningless statement from a slick, faceless spokesperson. I waited nervously in line behind some clean-cut first-years buying Expos books and an Eliot House resident buying Maoist literature to talk to Rachael Adler, a senior staff member of Revolution Books...
...almost all educational debates in America come down to questions of race and class. So too with Choice: What would it mean for students trapped in the holding-pen schools of the inner city? What are its implications for racial balance in the South, where the very word Choice conjures up white flight to private academies in the 1960s and '70s? Can the nation offer parents true educational Choice without formally abandoning the ever-elusive goal of school desegregation...