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Whether children are at their parents' workplace or in the basement of a public school or in an idyllic country setting, the approach to learning is undergoing a mini-revolution. Today imagination and play are being stressed as never before. Observes Chicago kindergarten teacher and author Vivian Gussin Paley, winner of a $355,000 MacArthur "genius" grant in recognition of her books about young children: "Essentially, everything you learn in school can be broken down into a story. If you allow children to talk about the little worlds they've created, they'll be able to take on everything...
...Vivian Twostar -- part Navajo, wholly feminist -- is an assistant professor of anthropology, desperately seeking tenure. As the story laboriously unfolds, Vivian gives birth to a daughter by her once and future lover Roger Williams, poet and English prof. She is a sensual, lapsed Catholic Earth Mother. Roger is Mr. Stuffy: a New England Episcopalian with neat-freak closets and a kitchen full of name-brand gizmos...
...Hampshire Indian lads. Their common link, besides furtive lust, is Christopher Columbus. She has been asked for an article on the quincentennial of his first voyage from her people's perspective. He is laptopping an epic poem on the great explorer. In pursuit of Columbus' lost diary, Roger and Vivian fly to Eleuthera in the Bahamas as guests of a junk-bond financier on the lam. This quasi Milken thinks Vivian knows the secret burial site of a golden crown that Queen Isabella gave Columbus. But what if it was a crown of a different kind...
...Vivian M. Sanchez '92, who is also co-minister of public affairs, said she is pleased with the progress HFHA has made...
...group left the building after reaching a compromise late Thursday night, but are waiting until next week to formally agree to the deal, according to Vivian Chiang, the chair of the Asian Students Association...