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...FLASHED past in an instant. We all kept cheering, of course, all 400 or so of us, waving the gold-and-white flags the nuns at school had given us. It was October 1965, after all, and to a third-grader like myself it didn't matter that the weather was far too cold for early fall, and that the heavy drizzle had all but soaked through the neat white shirt and grey pants of my parochial-school uniform. Nothing much mattered except that every student of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs School was dutifully lined along Queens Boulevard...
...high school history teacher, I spent part of two class periods discussing Holocaust. I was shockingly awakened to the melodramatic aspects of the production when a ninth-grader asked about the photographs of stacked, starved bodies shown to Nazi Dorf during the last installment. "What happened to those people? Why did they look like that?" he asked. Many youngsters saw Holocaust more as a swashbuckling novel than as a historical atrocity...
Once a matter of shoving or fistfights, assaults today often result in bloodshed and even death. Last September an eighth-grader in Dade County's Westview Junior High died after a classmate smashed his face with a padlock during a lunchtime brawl. Just two weeks ago a 15-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in the chest at John Adams High School, in the Queens section of New York City, while his screaming girlfriend watched helplessly. On Dec. 5, a Los Angeles high school gang stabbed one victim and beat a second with a heavy belt buckle. Attacks against...
...president," he has said, "is that he can remember a time when he was a non-tenured faculty member." He enjoys teaching so much that he resigned as master of Yale's Ezra Stiles College because it was cutting into his classroom time. Despite his reputation as a tough grader, his courses in epic poetry and Renaissance literature are favorites among students...
...Great Discoverer, Columbus was "as regards his exterior person and bodily disposition, more than middling tall." But in the behemoth world of professional football, Pruitt, at 5 ft. 9 in. and 190 Ibs., is more than middling small. From his first day in football as a seventh-grader-when a 4-ft. 4-in. schoolmate looked down at Pruitt (who was an inch shorter) and dubbed him "Shorty"-Pruitt has been undersized and overly successful-an All-America and Pro-Bowl mote darting elusively through forests of giant defenders. Says Pruitt: "I've had to play at this size...