Word: writes
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Through her work with the Hasty Pudding, Peck met Norman Yamada '84-5, a composer who wrote half the songs for Citystep's April production. Yamada will continue his work with Citystep this semester. "Last spring, I had the chance to write some unusual stuff. The music wasn't in strict song form, and it all had to serve a dramatic function," he said...
...principle, the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court do not write laws, they merely apply them. They "breathe life, feeble or strong, into the inert pages of the Constitution and of statute books," wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter...
...Cuisenaire rods. The Missouri state legislature has financed a statewide program of home assistance to help parents spot potential problems in future pupils. In Los Angeles, 146 schools offer small children a voluntary "school-readiness" program, which helps the children learn letters and numbers and how to write their names. Says School District Coordinator June Ushijima: "Kindergarten teachers are vying for those kids. Their attitudes are in place when they reach the classroom...
...gift for popular appeal. The son has won critical success for his magazine articles and books (which Arlen slyly depicts as exhaustive looks at narrow topics, resembling less his own work than that of his New Yorker colleague John McPhee); he is too constrained, too inward looking, to write in a way that could stir emotions and reach a mass audience. Tom believes that his happiness and security with his new wife will shield him from his father's belittling ways. But in the course of an awkward, misbegotten summer holiday, the captivating old egotist outrides...
...course of learning to write a check, plant cotton and punish her son for smoking in school--all in the face of a world controlled by white males--Edna evolves from the once timid wife to a woman fully aware of the limitations and prejudices of her world. With the help of Moses, she struggles against and ultimately overcomes the veil of ignorance which her community uses to keep women and all minorities in their place...