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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon the class labors on written reports, using library books and four sets of well-worn encyclopedias. Sixth-graders are taught how to write compositions with a bibliography; recent subjects include Roman history and Michelangelo. Second-graders learn how to diagram sentences. Collins doles out plenty of encouragement. "You're not slow; you just haven't been taught properly," she tells laggards in her strong voice, often hugging them for good measure...
Because the method is "natural," it is acceptable to the Roman Catholic Church. Indeed, Monsignor Robert Deegan, of the Los Angeles archdiocese, actively lobbied to get the HEW study grant approved. Still, says Dr. Phyllis McCarthy, an investigator for the study, "some priests are skeptical about the method. They got burned by advising couples to use the rhythm system and don't want any more babies named after them...
...which sounds perhaps like the last days of the Roman Empire. Yet Americans are certainly eating more wisely than they did in the days when a hunk of steer and a stack of fries were the banquet supreme. Contemporary Americans favor lighter, shorter meals?a far cry from the XXVII-course banquets that forced the Romans to repair to imperial latrines to vomit between dishes ?in which every succulent leaf and crumb has been thoughtfully purchased, planned and prepared...
...long as Saturday Night Fever stays at the hero's local disco, it is on solid footing. When Tony and his inarticulate chums burn off the tensions of their workaday jobs and Roman Catholic guilts, we see a mindless explosion of pent-up energy that is almost frighteningly hedonistic. The characters become cruel and volatile beneath the strobe lights, and it seems that Saturday Night Fever has an authentic statement to make about America's newest crop of alienated youth...
...game research in Tsavo bitterly describes it, was an unbroken stretch of umbrella forest only two generations ago. Since then the elephants, condemned to death by overcrowding, have eaten much of the Tsavo down to bare laterite earth. "Where they make a desert, they call it peace"-the ancient Roman epigram is the epitaph to East Africa's conservation policy...