Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lesley College last month received a $120,000 grant from the General Cinema Corporation to support a project, run by the college and the Cambridge public school system, that helps children learn to read and teachers to teach...
...fact, Thernstrom did not even submit it to the literary agent. Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English Michael C. Blumenthal who had taught Thernstrom read her thesis as a favor to her and was amazed at its scope...
Blumenthal admits that when Melanie first asked him to read her thesis, he was slightly put off by its size--600 pages. "I really did not know how much of a duty or pleasure reading Melanie's book would be because of its length," Blumenthal says...
Blumenthal recalls a project that melanie wrote for his class during her freshman year. "Melanie wrote this truly astonishing thing in three parts. The first section was called `Thoughts on Love,' the second was `Thoughts on God' and the third was `Thoughts on Self.' It was astonishing how well-read she was in different areas and how well she was able to assimilate all of the information," he remembers...
...accordance with the traditional laws of fairy-tale telling, The Princess Bride has a mawkishly happy ending, reinforcing the mistaken notion that a happy ending is a cliche. Even Reiner's framing device is trite: he has a grandfather, played by Peter "Columbo" Falk, read "the Princess Bride" fable to his ailing grandson...