Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maister must make judgments on his 100 students (50% of a student's grade is based on classroom performance), and he has a card on each one, with a photograph of the student on it. His comments range from "very good" to "turkey." His own job, he says, "is to turn people on, to make them want to learn." He is wearing, as he speaks, a blue necktie ornamented in gold thread with the words Waffle House...
Women, of course, cause the most gnawing and perplexing hungers. Yet the men scarcely begin the tales of wives and lovers when their stomachs start to rumble. The refrigerator, "our ice mother," is raided. Its contents-salads, chicken, turkey, salmon, pecan pie and chocolate cake-are devoured, though they are meant to feed the host's wife and friends...
...underlying temper is festive. The reason lies in tradition: when the funeral is done, the streets will explode with jubilant jazz and antic celebration. To see it is to understand what Trumpeter Willie Pajaud meant when he said: "I'd rather play a funeral than eat a turkey dinner...
...abundance of taxicabs to take you to the good places. Hélas, the drivers seem mostly to be crazy and they do not know their geography! As for their cars, say GM, they could not be in worse repair if you boarded them in the farthest depths of Turkey...
...compromise is needed in enacting Reagan's programs. For two years we should defer those proposals that will have a harsh impact on the nation's poor, minorities and cities. After all, no 50-year addict can go cold turkey overnight. If Reagan is right, then the private sector will have made progress in alleviating the problems. If Reagan is wrong, then a disaster will have at least been deferred...