Word: student
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brand new life. Though separated by a continent, he remains his father's son, a princeling of deception: "I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others." Hence he adopts a name, Jack, that he feels suits him better than his real one. An indolent student, he routinely alters his report cards, displaying what he could have done instead of what he did not do. After re- establishing contact with his brother, a student at Princeton, he sees a scholarship at an Eastern prep school as his avenue of escape. He forges his transcript and letters...
From his art-student days (if one is to believe The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, his charmingly mythomanic autobiography), he struck everyone, especially himself, as a prodigy. Around 1929, after moving to Paris and serving an apprenticeship in various realist and cubist styles, he saw that realism, when pressed to a photographic extreme, could subvert one's sense of reality. He therefore used what he called "tricks of eye fooling" to invoke "sublime hierarchies of thought...
...merits of the study, Wallerstein and co-author Sandra Blakeslee provide vivid portraits of just how devastating divorce can be for children. Deborah, for example, saw her parents split up when she was five, shortly after her father beat up her mother. Fifteen years later, she is a top student in college, but she has a habit of falling in love with "jerks." Deborah says her latest boyfriend really loves her: "I know he cares about me because he hits...
...Doss assembled his first Upward Bound squad. He and his wife Aline, a teacher, created tutorials focused specifically on college entrance requirements. In the CASE (College Academic Skills Enhancement) curriculum, students work with computers to boost SAT scores. The G.S.A. (Graduate Student Athlete) program helps recent graduates better their chances with choosier schools. With curriculum designs complete, Doss spent $25,000 of his own money for court and classroom rentals, team travel, textbooks, uniforms, computers and software...
That afternoon, following an airport run to greet returning players, he meets with a distraught girl. Huddled in the Olds' front seat, she tells a sad tale. Her unstable mother has threatened her with a knife. She's afraid to go home, reluctant to call the police. A struggling student, she lacks money for needed books. And she'd like to play for Upward Bound, but fears the humiliation of failure...