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...directly. Here is not an objective study in the statistical sense of the term, for Howe has not collated material from a representative cross-section. But she points out that people are not ciphers, and her approach offers another, more personal kind of insight. And her book does not pretend to resolve anything, to give all the answers. Despite its soft pink over, the volume is meant to make its readers uncomfortable. It leaves one with conflicting impressions, dispelling some of the myths that many feminists and statisticians would have one believe. For example, How does not suggest that women...
...pretend to be more Albert Schweitzer than Shanker...
...sneer, flashing a sign-off YOU LOSE TURKEY. For those who want to be the neighborhood Bobby Hull, most of the sets programmed for tennis also provide a hockey game in which armchair dudes can try to blast a puck past an agile goalie. Soccer aficionados can pretend they are Pelé, since the same game simulates soccer. For would-be Andrettis, there is Indy 500 (list price: $130), which comes with a vrooming sound track that may make parents wish the children were watching Captain Kangaroo. The Fairchild Video Entertainment System ($ 150 for the basic unit, $20 for cartridges...
Larry Weinstein is very tactful. In his earnest but soft spoken manner, he explained that the Writing Center does not pretend that there is only one way to write. The staff only tries to suggest new approaches that might enable the student to express himself more easily...
Caudill occasionally gets carried away by excessively aghast prose ("The heart flutters in contemplation" while "the greediest mind boggles"). He does not pretend to be impartial. He does not even pretend to be fair. He is a prophet returned from his well-ravaged wilderness with a specific case which, as others have before, asks a general Bicentennial-spoiling question: Will the U.S. go down in history as the land of opportunity that could not control its opportunists...