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...would be eligible for partial credits. Declared Reagan: "We are offering help to the inner-city child who faces a world of drugs and crime, the child with special needs, and to families who still believe the Lord's Prayer will do them less harm in the schoolroom than good...
...trial in which Davenport interrogates everyone and reconstructs the crime in flashback. The flashback is a tell-and-show device. It can be used with fluid emotional mastery, as Arthur Miller used it in Death of a Salesman; here it seems more like a dry studied exercise on a schoolroom blackboard...
...fail to engage Agee's imagination, except for the time a smuggled Monopoly set turns professorial Marxists into board-game landowners, buying play-money hotels with an almost erotic glee. But when a predictable argument about whether Napoleon was a reactionary or a progressive begins in a gray schoolroom, Agee slips a pulp detective novel behind his textbook. The adventures of fearless
...contrast, in the northern industrial center of Turin, Communist Mayor Diego Novelli, 48, has at least solved his city's disastrous schoolroom shortage. In Turin, swollen with immigrant laborers from Italy's south, classrooms were so rare 4% years ago that students had to attend in two and sometimes three shifts. Now all put in a full day. Since 1975 (when Novelli was elected), the city has built 1,159 new classrooms and opened 267 kindergartens and 34 municipal nurseries...
...among gypsies than among the German population as a whole, they remain marked as dangerous people, as well as chronic pickpockets and con men. Tellingly, the German name for gypsy, Zigeuner, literally means "wandering swindler." Complains Romani Rose, a German gypsy activist: "If a sandwich is missing in the schoolroom, a gypsy child gets blamed...