Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lissena this. Richard Condon useta write very funny stuff, right up there with George V. Higgins, but lately there is too much stuff and not enough funny. Mainly, this third book of the Prizzi series, about the good-guy Mafia assassin Charley Partanna, needs a dose of bran. In Condon's mad early novels -- The Oldest Confession, The Manchurian Candidate -- marvelous characters seethed with venality and obsession. In the current book there is still enough corruption to go around, but not much narrative drive. Condon's Mafia greedsters now own 32% of what there...
...Truth About Boys' ; Bodies" and "How to Kiss." That is too much for the Moral Majority, which in the mid-1980s helped persuade a few retailers, including 7-Eleven stores, to stop selling Playboy and other skin mags. In its Liberty Report newspaper, the Moral Majority urges readers to write to Sassy's advertisers and demand that the firms boycott the magazine...
...with burned wood. In Brazil, Sister Cecilia heads an agency that runs 18 N.F.P. centers; she argues that in countries where poverty and illiteracy prevail, N.F.P. is an ideal method of limiting family size. "The ovulation method doesn't cost anything, and women don't have to read or write to figure out which are their fertile days," she says...
...underclass ghettos and barrios. Despite efforts to upgrade the math skills of U.S. students, a recent survey indicates that nearly half of American 17-year-olds cannot perform simple calculations that are normally learned in junior high school. Other surveys have documented equally dreary student performance in reading, writing and critical thinking. So ill equipped is the current crop of high school graduates that U.S. corporations spend $25 billion a year for remedial * training programs for new employees on whom state, local and federal agencies have already lavished $130 billion in an attempt to teach them to read, write...
...Write off college loans for graduates who go into teaching. No program for reviving public education can succeed until better-qualified students are willing to become teachers. One way to accomplish this would be to forgive the college indebtedness of top students who spend three to five years in the public schools. Academic underachievers need not apply. To qualify, students should be in the upper third of their graduating classes and major in subjects that are most in need of able teachers: math, sciences, computer technology and foreign languages. Annual cost: $500 million...