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...Thurman, 36, labored to form her first effort at biography, the scrupulous and elegant Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, along accepted Freudian lines. The author, so goes the convention, must interpret her subject psychologically for the reader. Thurman balked at the role of therapist. "Psychoanalyzing is absolutely useless," she recalls. "I was treating Dinesen as a case. I dropped that." Now she views her work as a love affair. "First it was the ecstasy, then total disillusionment, and finally came a deeper understanding and acceptance of the person." As sales and critiques have shown, the result was equally...
...unfairness; the rule dis-criminatex against inner-city students whose vocabularies were different, against students from poorer families, and so forth. But the more pressing problem turned out to be one of mere practicality. So many students failed to pass seventh grade that the already crowded facilities became almost useless; and a substantial number of students, though tested several years in a row, failed to pass. The presence of 17- and 18-year-old seventh-graders was a dramatic condemnation of a school system that couldn't teach the competencies, and so punished the students for not learning what...
...March 6, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher urged Moscow "to follow its words with deeds." Responding to the Andropov proposal to reduce the number of Soviet missiles to fewer than 162 if France and Britain trimmed their nuclear arsenals, French President Franç Mitterrand warned that it was "useless to dream that France would reduce its present armaments in the slightest...
...five years may become organizationally dysfunctional." That is to say, useless...
...General-Anzeiger to compare it to "a Christmas tree with no needles on its branches." The party's Hamburg debacle indicates that it is in danger of falling under the 5% minimum necessary to qualify for parliamentary seats. If that happens in March, the Free Democrats will be useless to Chancellor Kohl as a coalition partner. The Christian Democrats and their allies, Bavaria's Christian Social Union, would have to win an absolute majority to stay in office...