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...because she was allowed to hand in most of her written work in the form of deft cartoons. Though self-motivated kids can design their own independent study projects, no one can spend the entire year on one subject. All units have time limits; most include tests. Students who stray from their pods without an explanation get old-fashioned detention after school. Says Principal Jones, a pragmatic convert to informal teaching after 15 years in formal Maryland schools: "We need to control some of the kids who can't stand the 360-degree escape hatch...
...wholesale slaughter does not stray far from describing current U. S. policy in Indochina. For years American bombers have pounded the land and people of three countries in Southeast Asia. They have murdered hundreds of thousands, created millions of refugees in South Vietnam and Cambodia, and forced much of the population of Laos to live in underground caves. And the bombing policy is not something which Nixon and Kissinger merely inherited from their predecessors. They have broadened and intensified it. And it is not so much that the bombing has been a successful military tactic as part of the policy...
...crux of the problem is that the J.D.L. is normally very careful not to stray too far outside the letter of the law-defamation or physical assault, for example-and that even when members do, the Soviets seldom permit their diplomats to bring charges and testify in court. The Russians claim that testifying is not their responsibility, that it is up to the U.S. to protect them. But without Soviet cooperation, little can be done. The situation is complicated by the highly emotional aura that surrounds the J.D.L. Most responsible Jewish leaders oppose the J.D.L., but they are also sympathetic...
...Sway," the second cut, sounds like a slowed down "Stray Cat Blues" and it is not particularly impressive or memorable. It is followed, however, by "Wild Horse," a beautiful ballad that is the one real standout in a uniformly fine album. The Flying Burrito Brothers did a good version of this song last year, but the Jagger-Richard vocal is unbeatable. This is clearly one of the two or three best ballads the Stones have recorded...
...first novels have been embraced with such praise and sympathy as Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird-a taut, savage story of a stray city boy's brutalization by Middle European peasants during World War II. Three years after it was published in 1965, Kosinski won the National Book Award for Steps, a montage of violent and sadistic episodes perceived with an almost fetishistic precision. Being There is a change of pace, a tantalizing knuckle ball of a book delivered with perfectly timed satirical hops and metaphysical flutters...