Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last, an article about a man in public life (not an athlete) that we can read with pride because he is "An Individual Who Happens To Be a Negro" [Feb. 17]. Edward Brooke expresses the sentiments many of us feel. Adam Powell is not held in high esteem by most Negroes. I became disenchanted with Martin Luther King some time ago. Carmichael is in a class with Rockwell...
...been watching the test tubes more than the students. My 37 years in a suburban high school indicate that he need not worry about today's pupil becoming a "tired old man" from "a 17-hour day of classwork, school activities and homework" [Feb. 17]. "Day" should read "week." Tired all right, but rarely from study-instead, from boys, girls, telephone, cars, TV, sports, clubs, spastic dancing, slumber parties, clothes, hair grooming, parties, girls, boys...
...those 17-hour-day high school students. Tonight's homework: algebra, study for French test, memorize French dialogue, read a chapter on Molière and answer 16 questions, study for history test, write essay on Brotherhood Week, answer four history essay questions, write ballad for English and composition for Creative Writing. Then I am supposed to have time to work on long-range assignments: reading four books in two weeks, working on a term paper and several compositions. Good grief...
After a respite of much more than a minute, the teams returned to action in the Dartmouth backcourt. A long inbound pass was knocked out by Dressler, and the clock -- strangely enough -- still read two seconds. After another time out, Dartmouth passed in again -- this time from halfcourt, and Joe Colgan missed a desperation jump shot at the buzzer...
...Being a journal of record is the quickest road to not being read," Bethell notes, "and we can't afford that. We try, for instance, to avoid a glut of alumni notes. They get readers to subscribe, but they can fill half the magazine unless you weed out the trivia. We tend not to print the 'I-ran-into-Charlie-the-other-day-in-the-men's-room-of-Grand-Central-Station' variety...