Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Debaters in the tournament at Smith College were assigned topics at the beginning of each match, leaving them no time for prior preparation. Prohibition was the topic of the last debate which Alpers and Bannon...
...LUCK CLUB by Amy Tan (Putnam; $18.95). A bright, sharp-flavored first novel on the subject of growing up ethnic in the U.S. The topic sounds familiar, but the Chinese spice added to this old recipe is invigorating and refreshingly true...
Congdon's Tales of the Lost Formicans takes a weepy topic that might easily have been a TV movie of the week and inverts it into a witty, goofy, almost anthropological look at humankind as viewed by aliens from outer space. The patriarch of a suburban blue-collar family is dying of Alzheimer's disease, while his daughter acts out anger over her divorce through petty crimes of feminist rage and his grandson runs away and ends up sleeping in shopping malls. The extraterrestrials are staging a sort of slide show to explain how human art, society and psychology work...
Core Lite Dept.: A word about The Liberal Boutique's favorite topic--Social Analysis 10. An anonymous Ec 10 section leader tells me that Prof. Martin S. Feldstein, not content to head one of Harvard's largest courses, is out to increase enrollment. "Marty thinks everyone should take it," he said...
...years ago, Boyko would not have handled the topic of religion with such confidence, nor would Volodya have had the last word. Now fresh breezes of tolerance are wafting through many Soviet schools, from first to tenth grade. Always considered a potent means of molding character, schools have been transformed into little laboratories of restructuring. Under Gorbachev, they are to change citizens from sheep into self-starters. Said Boguslovsky: "Soviet society requires not just a person who carries out orders but someone who thinks for himself. Our children are not mannequins, and our school is not a fortress...