But love is the most empty and overused word in the English language after brilliant.
Absconding resembles swarming, except that no bees are left behind in the parent colony. The entire colony leaves its hive. Before
Keeping bees is a lot like falling in love. Both provide a lot of sweetness tempered with an occasional sting. Furthering
I'm gonna party, see how intoxicated I can get and how many rules I can flaunt. That's my motto.
He lost the testicle but he did make All-State.
He firmly believed that football, like other sports, used blacks, exploited them and then spit them out once their talents as running backs or linebackers or wide receivers had been fully exhausted. F...
It was stupid not to let MacArthur finish off those rice eaters. Push 'em back.
You’ll be all right, said Hanson. As long as you don’t rock the boat, then they think
I work not only for the gathering and assimilation of knowledge, but also to teach the fact that one can be brilliant without being arrogant, that great intellectual capacity brings great responsibili...
Saw no great social motive in the desegregation effort. It had nothing to do with true assimilation of the races and everything to do with percentages—how many whites, how many blacks, how many browns...
Pollen pickle.
The first murder in Odessa occurred late in the nineteenth century when a cowboy rode into a water-drilling camp one afternoon and demanded something to eat from the cook. The cook, described as a chi...
Many teachers felt that no matter how creative they were in the classroom, it wouldn’t make a difference anyway. They talked about a devastating erosion in standards, how the students of today bore no...
He and his teammates were the Princes of the City, only they were high school kids instead of New York City narcotics detectives,
And because she was intelligent (she graduated from Permian in 1986 and went on to become an honors English major at Swarthmore College), she also felt ostracized.
The solemn ritual that was attached to almost everything, made them seem like boys going off to fight a war for the benefit of someone else, unwitting sacrifices to a strange and powerful god. In
We don’t have a large university that has thirty or forty thousand students in it. We don’t have the art museum that some communities have and are world-renowned. When somebody talks about West Texas,...
On the SAT exam, boys who took the test during 1988–89 at Permian had a combined average score of 915 (433 verbal, 482 mathematical), 19 points below the national average for boys. Girls had a combine...
He saw the irresistible allure of high school sports, but he also saw an inevitable danger in adults’ living vicariously through their young. And he knew of no candle that burned out more quickly than...
The solution to the problem of poor performance scores had been a new system of grading that would encourage students to stay in school as well as improve their self-esteem. Beyond these important, ad...