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Others said the numbers were much lower. A teacher's aide said yesterday that about 30 students attended school. John Nee, a resident near the school, said yesterday, "The buses weren't even half full" when they arrived. "I doubt that there are even 10 white kids there today," he added...
...English officer charged with tracking down Wolff is Major William Vandam, a non-U widower in military intelligence. Vandam's strategy starts with a well-baited hooker. Her name is Elene Fontana (nee Abigail Asnani), a 23-year-old Jewish courtesan who-after the characteristic Follett sexual intermezzos-rises quickly to become the star of the Wolff hunt. One of Vandam's problems is his toffee-nosed superior, Lieut. Colonel Reggie Bogge, who spends most of his time polishing a precious cricket ball and refusing to accept his subordinate's theory of the spy's existence...
Here Social Analysis 10 (nee Economics 10) is the role model of a class whose designers have defined their course goals and mobilized section leaders to teach them. In group meetings before the fall semester, fellows discuss methods of teaching and receive a booklet to guide them during the term. As the semester progresses, the course staff videotapes each section twice and analyzes the instructor's performance, offering suggestions for improving his teaching. At the conclusion of each term, students complete an elaborate questionnaire assessing their section and the course as a whole. As a result, sections synchronize with lectures...
...side, the comparisons that follow are likely to be odious. Susan Cheever, 36, accepts this mixed blessing with considerable panache. She never pretends to write like her old man, John, the sage of Ossining, but she alludes regularly and playfully to his imposing presence. When her heroine, Salley Gardens (nee Potter), gets married, one of the wedding guests is J.C. Salley's father, a Columbia University professor, commits an unacknowledged theft from a Cheever short story when commenting on his older brother: "What can you do with a man like that?" Even an apparently innocent comment by Salley carries...
More recently, Paul Blanshard's "Protestants and Others United for the Separation of Church and State" had as its agenda the rollback of the alleged Catholic takeover of the American (nee Protestant) system including the public schools; through lectures and a best-selling book The People's Padre, ex-priest Emmett McLoughlin exposed contemporary Romish abuses to the delight of many...