Word: reference
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What astonishes me about the decision by the current Expos director to abolish the fiction-writing option is its wrong-headedness in going after the song-birds with a shotgun. I don't refer to the teachers, but to those students how come to the college with an ability to write and also a need--under proven, rigorous supervision--to try their voices at something other than "the expository essay...
Although it still lacks investigators, the commission does have the power to take "punitive action" against anyone violating the ethics statute. The board may suspend an official's job, stop his pay, or in extreme situations, refer the case to the attorney general for legal action. The maximum penalty for a breach of ethics...
There are also certain peculiarities of form which can be ascribed to the specificity of Afro-American culture and which seem to bring out further the richness of Afro-American literature and thereby its enrichment of American literature. I refer to the brilliant essay writing of James Baldwin which seems to have emanated out of the ser-monesque-rapping of the Afro-American religious experience; the peculiar from of the dialect which Dunbar introduced into his works; and the particular integration of the folkloric tradition which Chestnutt used so well in his "Conjure" tales. One finds a very special...
...worldly standard Brumley Gap is hardly in a position to stand against a $1 billion water project. The village is set in the middle of what the inhabitants proudly refer to as Poor Valley. The soil is rocky and hard to farm. Most families cultivate an acre or so of tobacco, the town's only cash crop, and a vegetable patch, with a little meager grazing land for a few cows. The families in the scattering of wooden houses and log cabins have a median income of about $6,000 a year. To eke out a living, many...
...blood pressure, weight and height, and doing urinalysis and blood tests, she talks to people about their medical, family and social histories, and tries to discover stressful situations that might be influencing their health. If she suspects that a bad family situation could be causing problems, she may then refer the person to one of the counselors or psychologists on the clinic's health care team. She then finishes the physical with a complete review of bodily systems...