Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cavaliere, age ten, a carpenter's daughter in Philadelphia who three times a week gives sage counsel to the prepuberty set in the pages of the Philadelphia Bulletin. In only three weeks, "Dear Angel" has drawn more than 1,000 letters from youngsters seeking wisdom on everything from schoolyard bullying to parental restriction...
...spiraling teen-age crime, undercover agents have filtered into the schoolyard. One appeared -weirdly hooded and with a .38-cal. pistol tucked into her belt-before a congressional crime committee last week to testify on alleged drug abuse in New York City schools. She was Detective Kathleen Conlon, a petite 29-year-old who apparently looks young enough to pass for a teenager. That is just what she has done for the past three years in the city school system, in which, she told the committee, drug users and pushers operate freely. Asked what could be done about the problems...
...memory of her parents' love and her own love for them - and the knowledge that even such a trinity is insufficient in the face of suffering and death. The book ends quietly. All her ex-bridesmaids reassemble to see Laurel off. Some first-graders wave goodbye from their schoolyard...
...kings in the back row too. She taught remedial reading to kids and remedial living to me. We have two daughters, Esme and Phoebe. I know the rustle of little souls tossing in beds, and I no longer have to press my ear to the wire fence at the schoolyard to hear great dialogues of children who wonder, too, about Geppetto. Besides, I am at the schoolyard all day. Having tried a series of futile desk jobs, I realized I was not built to dwell in modules. The school at which I teach used to be as snobbish and phony...
Surprise of surprises is that, by virtue of its youthful spirits and calculated razzmatazz, Godspell just about succeeds. Set on an empty stage backed by a chain link fence (part schoolyard, part concentration camp, tres modern), God spell manages to overcome its environment--and, to some extent, its genre. The parables and paradoxes which Christ produces--like a magician running through his patter--are really just excuses for songs and jokes and snappy impersonations. And so, the father of the prodigal son is made to speak like Jimmy Cagney and when he announces the homecoming celebration somebody shouts...