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Brighton Educational Opportunity and the Easy Reader Program fall most readily into the traditional social service, category. Both provide tutoring for high school students in the first case, and for second and third graders in the second. One can still argue, however, that even these plant the seeds of social change by extending community resources to people who would otherwise be denied. Adelante, which teachers English as a second language to Spanish and Portuguese immigrants and helps provide translators for hospitals and airports, affects people's lives so directly that dismissing the project as a "Band-Aid solution" would...
...their own, sometimes psychedelic approaches. Teichmann's book is an "intimate portrait," so he packs a series of topical chapters ("...The Playwright, The Wit, The Cardplayer...") between two very thin slices of reminiscence. While the reminiscences are very good, the stuff in between would be bad filler for the Reader's Digest. In each chapter Teichman sloppily recounts a few Kaufman anecdotes, comes up with a few obvious generalities and sometimes even tacks on a list of short witticisms. The purpose of this approach is understandable; he is trying all along to give an impression of Kaufman as a great...
...writing is built around a core of highly systematic definition and explanation. But, aware of the difficulty in making his complex concepts understood, he continually recasts statements to shape out an idea from several sides, offers multiple, often spatial, metaphors, and highlights crucial areas by questioning himself and his reader...
...enable the reader to understand the songs, Jackson first presents excerpts from interviews he conducted with the prisoners. He then gives a short interpretive history of the prison system and how the songs developed in reaction to it. He follows with his photographic essay on the camps--pictures of chain gangs marching on dusty roads driven by fat sheriffs and photographs of strong black inmates picking cotton. He concludes with the songs, certainly the most instructive part of the book...
...figures that populate his books are, instead, fantasmo embodiments of various sorts of foaming mania. Among the twitches ambulant in Arigato are compulsive gambling, saxophone playing, war games, gold lust, French cookery, banking, power-elitism and think-tankery. Fine, thinks the reader, that sounds lively...