By proposing to eliminate Title II programs for fiscal year 1992, President Bush is sending America's colleges and universities, and those they seek to educate a most disheartening message: that he is willing to mouth the words “educational excellence,” but he is not willing to invest in the programs that can make such excellence realizable.

I snapped the curtains down in the floor, all of 'em was burnin', and I run in the back room and drug all the bed clothes off the bed and sprankled water on.

Like their friends the draggers, the hoisters or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]

When the neighbours saw Mirbel thus sedulously adorning herself, they quickly discovered that she had ceased to think of her father—that she had ceased to mourn for him.