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...part of his research for a paper for his first-year seminar, Coffey begged for spare change from passersby and handed out copies of the coupon book, "Square Deal...
Accordingly, Patti Davis, middle-aged rebel daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, has come to Manhattan's Doral Inn hotel to conduct a one-night-only seminar called Recovering from Dysfunctional Families. The class, which costs $39 to attend, is offered by the Learning Annex, a New York City adult- education center that provides urbanites with such courses as Start Your Own Cheese Business or Mini Goat Farm and Design Your Own Jewelry: Bead Stringing. Among the 70 seminar participants seated in the hotel's ballroom -- a drab hall in which one suspects no ball has ever been held...
...copy of The Way I See It. During her lecture Davis found time to mention a book of hers that will soon be published. "I have a novel coming out," she told the class. "It's called Bondage. It's very erotic." Someday, someone may hold a successful seminar titled Recovering from Reading an Erotic Novel by Patti Davis...
...Cunningham has little use for the present popular fervor. "If people want to get in touch with their angels, they should help the poor. If they want to get in touch with their angels, they'd be a lot better off working at a soup kitchen than attending a seminar...
...there are strengths in her work as well. For one thing, Wolf is an engaging raconteur. Once at Swarthmore College she found herself berated by members of a seminar on women's studies as too elitist (she used compound sentences); too lax as an academic (she used endnotes instead of footnotes); too much of a sellout (she published with a mainstream press). Later, over beer and pizza, the same students turned out to be friendly and vulnerable, voicing their late-adolescent doubts about sexuality and self-esteem...