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...Police Chief Edward M. Davis. He should have been given a citation for the compassionate insight he renders into the life of a cop. He successfully delineates the humanism of the policeman trying to do an impossible job. Wambaugh does more than "keep out of trouble with the reader," he evokes a positive response toward this clannish group of men who know...
Last week in a letter to the New York Times, a reader named Richard Shramko made an engaging if wistful suggestion: the creation of a "Quality of Life Index." Like a weather service temperature-humidity index, the Q.L.I. would take into account "air and water pollution, the unemployed and those on welfare, the adequacy of housing and medical care, the acres of accessible park land, crime and auto accidents, the years it takes to settle a lawsuit, the presence of minority group members in American institutions and American soldiers abroad...
...dozen of tycoons who are underwriting Hitler. U.S. intelligence, with help from his abandoned wife and widowed mother, pursues Scarlatti through the capitals of the world, encountering murder, madness and megalomania among the high and the mighty. The plot is pure kitsch, but does occasionally clutch, and the reader rests assured that the damned indeed are doomed...
...were present at the tea given for Moynihan and, in our opinion, you gave a slanted representation of what he said. By picking quotes from the peripheries of his discussion on education, you gained reader interest but sacrificed objectivity...
...this curriculum are distinctive because children use their understanding of sound-letter correspondences, however limited, as soon as they are taught them. The knowledge is treated as a functional necessity in peer group interaction. Earlier dramatic experience leads to story reading by one student to a group. The reader gets a sense of the importance of conveying a meaning because other students do not have an identical text. The first attempts at composition are the recording of sensory stimuli and dictation of stories by young to older children. These are followed by written observations in an assigned project, like watching...