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...while the 1975 Lou Adler movie has sprouted a phenomenon in the United States, the original stage version has quietly hummed along in London since it opened in 1973. This month, Richard O'Brien's brainchild--he wrote the script, music and lyrics, and starred in the movie--began a nationwide U.S. tour with a two-week engagement at the Harvard Square. The Boston cadre of Rocky Horror fans seems to be greeting it with the respect and appreciation due the first draft of a recognized masterpiece--but not with the unmitigated love and devotion they display for the film...
Your story on requiring licenses for teachers claimed that Philosopher Mortimer Adler's proposal [Sept. 29] would "weaken control of teaching by teachers." Teachers, however, have very little control to be weakened. More crucial, Mr. Adler's plan would weaken control of teaching by teachers of teaching-a necessary change, it seems to me, a teacher. Jack W. Rhodes Charleston...
...only product of Adler's plan to improve teaching would be clones of Adler loaded with information about "history, great literature and art." These humanoid teachers might recite such catechisms while their students are trying to survive drugs, vandalism, rape, poverty and gang warfare. Edward R. Pagan University Park...
...that teaching can be improved by making the field more professional through use of measurable standards and uniform review procedures. In marked contrast, another licensing proposal is aimed at wresting control of teacher standards away from the present educational establishment. That radical notion has been proposed by Philosopher Mortimer Adler, 77, who argues that most of the nation's education schools and departments "are themselves the reason why our schools are staffed by woefully incompetent, uneducated, illiterate, unmotivated teachers...
...alternative to Broadway's commercial offerings; for ten years it provided a forum for playwrights like Clifford Odets and William Saroyan, introduced to the American stage the Stanislavsky Method of acting, and nourished such actors as Lee Strasberg, John Garfield, Cheryl Crawford, Lee J. Cobb and Stella Adler (Clurman's first wife). As a drama critic since the late 1940s, mostly for the Nation, he drew on enormous theatrical erudition, a prodigious memory and an insatiable delight in the arts. "I disapprove of much," he once said, "but I enjoy almost everything...