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Gurian, a Spokane, Wash., therapist who has written two books on boys, notes that four adolescent males drop out of school for every one adolescent female. Among his prescriptions for helping our sons: provide them with mentors; provide twice as much emotional nurturing--spending time with them, developing family rituals, giving them new freedoms and responsibilities; restrict TV, video games and movies. Strikingly, these recommendations are precisely what our daughters need...
...Gardner published Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice, a collection of articles written with colleagues at Harvard. The book is quite diffuse and unsystematic, and the samples in the projects described are very small. When TIME asked Gardner what evidence there was that MI has improved achievement in schools, there was a long pause before he answered, "The testimonials and figures are numerous enough from lots of different places to suggest it's worth taking seriously." (One such testimonial could come from Coyote Creek, which scores above the district average on standardized tests.) Gardner was saying there is plenty...
...blurb on her first book of poems, Wooroloo (HarperFlamingo; $20), alludes delicately to the author's "unusual literary pedigree," which only fires curiosity while pretending to discourage it. For Frieda Hughes is the daughter of Ted Hughes, Britain's current poet laureate, and Sylvia Plath, whose stunning confessional poems written just before her 1963 suicide made her posthumously famous and, to many, a martyr-saint in the bargain. The Hughes-Plath story has fueled numerous books and endless, usually acrimonious, debates. Frieda Hughes, 38, grew up as a bit player in an engrossing literary drama...
Democrat WAYNE OWENS heads a Middle East peace center; DON EDWARDS serves on various civil-liberties boards; and CARLOS MOORHEAD is active with several foundations. Democratic stalwart JACK BROOKS manages his financial interests, and the G.O.P.'s LAWRENCE HOGAN has written a book, The Osage Indian Murders: A True Crime Story...
...most celebrated male ballet dancer of the postwar era. But even so, Nureyev's list of lovers was quite sufficiently star studded. (Did they or didn't they? Only Mick Jagger knows for sure.) Fortunately, Diane Solway is interested in more than just gossip, and her fact-crammed, plainly written chronicle is the most detailed and dependable account to date of Nureyev's hectic life. What fails to come through, oddly enough, is his artistry--if you never saw him dance, this book won't tell you what you missed--but the bare facts still make for a riveting read...