Word: vein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sondheim's lyrics are also as inventive as ever, continuing in the same cynical-witty vein that marked his great, neglected score for Anyone Can Whistle. One song, telling about "The Little Things You Do Together" that make a marriage work, lists "The neighbors you annoy together / The children you destroy together" as examples. Another song, in which husbands explain the role their wives played in shaping their lives, has such couplets as "It has nothing to do with her / all to do with her." There is also a fantastic number in which a female trio does a song (half...
...history of opposition to the Vietnam war, "New Hampshire" refers not simply to a state but to a March day two years ago when Senator Eugene McCarthy uncovered a deep vein of opposition to the politics of Lyndon Johnson. The Minnesota Senator's near victory in the New Hampshire primary on March 12, 1968 generated a hopefulness and enthusiasm not fully destroyed until the seige of Chicago four months later...
...recent years -schools have not been able to improve appreciably the performance of children from poor families. He asked Congress to set up a clearinghouse for research, the National Institute of Education. Its first job: to study how to improve compensatory education for the poor. In the same vein, he endorsed the Office of Education's "right to read" program, announced last September, to improve literacy by upgrading research and developing methods of teaching reading skills found to be inadequate among many students. He also asked for a network of experimental centers to study the education of prekindergarten children...
Ralphie got to Odyssey House from a hospital, where he had been seriously ill with hepatitis, contracted from a dirty needle he used to mainline heroin by injecting it into a vein in his arm. He is probably the youngest addict to surface for treatment in a terrifying wave of heroin use among youth, which has caught up teen-agers and even preadolescent children from city ghettos to fashionable suburbs, from New York ?where the problem is still most severe ?to the West Coast. One 17-year-old at Odyssey House knew Walter Vandermeer, 12, who died...
...somewhat less facetious vein-but then who knows?-University of Michigan Anthropologists Stanley M. Garn and Walter D. Block examine another area of human eating habits in the current issue of the American Anthropologist journal. Excerpts...