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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...NATIONAL need seems clear enough," the report says. "Early education is failing to provide millions of children, particularly poor children, with the personal and cognitive resources they need to surmount the social circumstances in which they find themselves. Educational reform, especially educational reform for the less affluent, must deal concretely with very young children; for the pattern of failure and withdrawal established for many children by the middle elementary grades is very difficult to reverse...
...weekend with Lenny in the country, by the shore, or captive on some lonesome cay in the Windward islands knows that feeling- the alternating spells of adrenal stimulation and insulin coma as the Great Interrupter, the Village Explainer, the champion of Mental Jotto, the Free Analyst, Mr. Let's Find Out, leads the troops on 2 seventy-two-hour forced march through the lateral geniculate and the pyramids of Betz, no breathers allowed, until every human brain is reduced finally to a clump of dried seaweed inside a burnt-out husk and collapses, implodes, in one last crunch of terminal...
Round up Wolfe's previous subjects if you will, and you find they are all either outlaws or outcasts. Murray the K, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Mick Jagger, Cassius Clay, Junior Johnson, Carol Doda, Natalie Wood, Ken Kesey and Neal Cassady- even, within such a context, Hugh Hefner. Certainly all worthy of Who's Who, but hardly New York's Four Hundred. That most of the personalities on Wolfe's little list are also celebrities is a testament to the sheer force of their outlandishness. They've forced fame to conform to their standards: their success the result of their...
Wolfe can find something to love in the blacks' outrageousness, but, dealing as he is with a type and not an individual (Carol Doda was not meant to be all big-breasted women, but in "Mau-Mau," Chaser is meant to be every black urban leader), his humor descends into racism...
...plan keeps the Radc?? stitute and the College's career couns??ling office-which helps alumnae find jobs in later life. It also keeps Radcliffe as a name and an administration, capable of negotiating another relationship if this one fails after four years...