Call screener An "industry vet" stated, "At the very least you can catch 90 percent of them by getting their number and calling them back, generally they freak or give you a phony phone number." Other techniques described "include grilling the caller on little known facts about the situation or organization they claim to represent." Prank callers don't always get through: Although the names of most call screeners never make it on the air, there are a few notable screeners that are major characters on their shows. Many live call-in radio shows do not like alternative or adverse opinions to be aired,
Call It Sleep on "TIME" magazine's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. "Call It Sleep" is the story of a Galician Jewish immigrant family in New York in the early part of the twentieth century. Six-year-old David Schearl has a close and loving relationship with his mother Genya but his father Albert is aloof, resentful and angry toward his wife and son. David's development takes place between fear of his father's potential violence and the degradation of life in the streets of the tenement slums. After the family has begun settling into their life in New York, Genya's