Into the Painted Bear Lair review by Pamela Stearns
A junior high book column praises Pamela Stearns first novel Into the Painted Bear Lair a witty fantasy with Gregory Bear Sir Rosemary a dragon and a magical quest. The review highlights vivid dialogue and compares it to Alice in Wonderland and King Arthur while noting the author’s varied talents and inviting readers to the library for the new school year.
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Pamela Stearns
Houghton
Arthur
Gregory
Bear
Rosemary
MS. Stearns
San Francisco Bay
Banner
Letter Encourages Clippings for Students to Learn Civic Duty
A Shaftsbury reader urges teachers to have students cut and file The Banner by topic. He praises keeping a personal archive of local, national, and world affairs to teach organization, critical thinking, and balance, noting today’s youth may become tomorrow's selectmen.
The English Language Isn’t Dead, It’s Momentarily Sick
Burlington Free Press notes language trends show English facing periodic strain amid rapid change and global influence. Authors urge preservation of core usage while embracing evolving vocabulary and inclusive expression to keep the tongue vital.
Cruel implications of the Bakke brief on race goals
Washington reports the Bakke brief as a sweeping statement that race is normally irrelevant to rights yet future policy must foster race consciousness. It argues discrimination in favor of government approved minorities is morally obligatory in admissions and employment, risking perpetual racial preference and devalued black achievement.
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Washington
Bakke
America
Allan Bakke
California
Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
Griffin Bell
Bell
Justice Department
Prison break and local happenings from Bennington news
Carl Garrity and Frank Bee alias Frank Flynn escaped from the county jail after permission to wash clothes. They pried a wood piece from an unbarred window and jumped through a copper screen. Deputy Leo Nash led the manhunt in Sheriff Peck's absence. Also featured are an art exhibit at Bennington College of prehistoric European and African cave art, a new neon sign for Quality Restaurant in Manchester Center, John Kennedy Jr. named special representative of New York Life Insurance Co., Abe Ruskin joining North American Van Lines with a new 1952 Dodge van, Bennington selectmen paying $350 for a dead purebred cow, a new archery range opened by William Stuchel, a section of US 7 repaved after a truck spill, a castlelike gatehouse at Bennington Village reservoir, and a 1846 anesthesia tooth extraction as well as the 1938 Munich conference ending with Chamberlain's promise of peace.
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Carl Garrity
Frank Bee
Frank Flynn
Leo Nash
W. Clyde Peck
Bennington College
Europe
Africa
Leo Frobenius
United States
Museum of Modern Art
New York
Manchester Center
Quality Restaurant
John Kennedy Jr
New York Life Insurance Co
Vermont
Bennington
Kennedy
Air Force
Abe Ruskin
Society of the Fifth Amendment Reflections on Trust in Public Life
In a 1977 column, the author questions the erosion of public trust amid ongoing investigations, noting polls show varied credibility for leaders and broad cynicism. He recalls America’s ideal of candor from Honest Abe to Thoreau and Franklin, then laments a culture of accepted deception and a loss of courage to trust.
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Lance
Louis Harris
Associated Press
Carter
Billy Graham
Society of the
Abe
Henry
Archie Bunker
America
Christian Science Publishing Society
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