Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS realization first struck me when I told my sister, who's still in high school in Kentucky, that I was going to New Haven for the Harvard-Yale game. Kentucky is a state that's big on sports, but the Harvard-Yale game?! She looked at me as if I'd lost my bearings, as if I'd suddenly announced that I'd voted for George Bush...
...remembered how I would have reacted in high school to someone who actually went to the Harvard-Yale game. There was a time when I was repulsed by the mere idea that thousands of Harvard and Yale students and alumni would really fill a stadium to cheer about how great their school was and how the other school sucked, while a few big guys down on the field ran around and tackled each other all afternoon...
...School psychologists, most of whom are trained in learning disabilities or family problems, often summon specialists to deal with students' "post- traumatic stress syndrome." Teachers and parents, experts say, need to bring fears immediately to the surface after a shooting or other violent episode and allow younger students in particular to act out and talk out the horrors they experienced. Adults are shaken as well. At the Greenwood, S.C., school, Principal Eleanor Rice lost 25 lbs. in the months after a 19-year-old man barged in, shooting at random, killed two pupils and wounded nine other people...
...would never accept such hikes. As the debt climbed dangerously, Democratic leaders decided Dukakis was unable to accept or even comprehend what had to be done. Worse, the Governor seemed incapable of bringing rivals together. Under weak leadership, opportunistic legislators are struggling to save pet projects while cutting into school budgets, law enforcement, the environment and aid to the disadvantaged...
...rest were never collected in hard covers. It is difficult to imagine why not. Malamud hit his stride early, writing stories of old men trying to preserve their dignity amid the shambles of harsh circumstances. In The Literary Life of Laban Goldman, an elderly Jew attends night school to improve his English and get away from his nagging wife; he experiences a brief moment of triumph when the Brooklyn Eagle publishes his letter to the editor urging a relaxation of New York State divorce laws. The Grocery Store evokes the atmosphere in which the author, the son of a grocer...