Word: instructional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...titles were Ken's. When they met in 1951, Ken, seven years older, was the voluptuary eager to instruct his new roommate in the love of art and the art of love. Ken would be Oscar Wilde, and Joe his protege and best beau. Then a funny thing happened: Ken may have wanted to live like Wilde, but Joe learned to write like him. And believing that "anything worth doing is worth doing in public," Joe shared his sexuality with all comers, while Ken was left at home to stew in his rancor. He was the "first wife," the spurned...
...Sundays, Ostling squeezes out time to instruct an adult Bible-study class at the Christian Reformed Church in Ridgewood, N.J., where he, his wife Joan and daughters Margaret, 15, and Elizabeth, 14, are all members of the congregation. He believes the current upheaval among the cathedrals of the airwaves may create benefits for less flamboyant Christian ministries. "Out of this," says he, "the unglamorous church on the corner may come out looking much more attractive...
...regulator keys with the right wrist while simultaneously playing melody on the chanter, not using the sensitive tips but rather the relatively nerve-poor second joints of his fingers. "It feels bizarre at first," he says (since his mouth is unencumbered, he can, unlike a Scottish piper, play and instruct at the same time), "but, believe me, it's the least bizarre of all the alternatives. Now, there are three ways to play C natural...
Punctuation, too, becomes a crucial consideration: instead of calling for mommy, the new-age child must learn to cry for his (M)other. And don't forget con-junctions. The intertextual Grammer Rock must now instruct children in the mysterious 'either/or and simultaneously neither/nor.' Never fear that traditional values need fall by the wayside: discipline is still important, as every mother who has ever washed out her child's mouth with soap for saying "dualism" or "positivism" in the house can tell...
...time he graduates from high school, Junior will be able to face the challenges of higher academia with Transcendental Signifier firmly in hand. He has learned enough French to translate Tel Quel (So What) and enough German to converse knowingly about Aufheben. His bluebooks instruct him to write only in the margins. As he looks ahead to college, the choice of the major is the next question: will it be Historicismn or Metaphysics? Panaestheticism, Diachronics or Sociolects? In his first romance, he can hope for jouissance...