Word: praiseed
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Some proponents of sex education had reservations about Koop's report. Stanford Education Professor Michael Kirst said schools are overburdened enough without becoming the official problem-solving arena for the nation's sex problems. Said Kirst: "Every time schools take on value-laden topics, they end up losing overall public...
PART OF THE process of maturation for Philip is revealing his homosexuality to his parents, Rose and Owen. But when he delivers the news, his mother doesn't praise his for-thrightness. "I'm not sure I'm glad you told me," she says. "We all have secrets, Philip. I...
The Lost Language of Cranes, David Leavitt's much-awaited first novel, is a work obsessed with secrets. Leavitt, age 25, has been heralded as the "voice of his generation" in some quarters of the New York literary set, where his 1984 collection of short stories, Family Dancing, won gushing...
At that moment a man in a ski mask burst into the cockpit with an AK-47. I knew something was wrong, because it wasn't even cold out. "I am seizing this plane," he said. "We are going to Beirut. Praise be to..."
Critics carp that Brody can be a joyless nudge. More seriously, they complain that she tends to make oracular pronouncements when scientists are still debating an issue. "If I don't sound positive," responds Brody, "people can readily discount what I say. But I'm ready for change." She used...