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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within these treatments of the past, however, lay basic, nagging questions about historical purpose. Why do Levine's book and other works--which are uniformly critical of the state of American society today--even attempt to find a rosy past? Wouldn't their critiques of repugnant, self-perpetuating class divisions in America be enhanced by demonstrating that the American experiment was flawed from the start? Why acknowledge that there was a time--however brief--when America was able to right itself and lay down the roots of a just society...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: A Time When Popular Culture Included the Fine Arts | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...such snowy-haired hoofers as Bunny Briggs, Lon Chaney and Ralph Brown. Glover reappears in a breakneck gymnastic number, hopping up and down stairs, while his elders return in slow, sentimental sequences to demonstrate the traditional tap presumption that less can be more. That is in contrast to the basic notion of Black and Blue, which seems to be that more is more. Yet in the understated moments when the stage is all but bare save for a performer at home with his craft, the show attains magic that could satisfy the haut monde and Harlem alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Gorgeous Fun, but Not Funky | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Project Literacy, Harvard students in Chelsea and others in South Boston prepare area adults in basic language and math skills in one area and for high school and college equialency exams in another. The goals and shortcomings of the programs vary, but their purposes are the same: to help people return to school without shame and gain control over lives which have run upon hard times...

Author: By Robert J. Weiner, | Title: Boston Program Offers English as a Second Chance | 2/4/1989 | See Source »

...best we can to give the students a basic foundation," says English as a Second Language Coordinator Donald E. Green, a permanent worker with Employment Connections Inc. (ECI). "Getting them to a job has got to be the first priority, though the classes can be continued afterwards. We're not having them stay here and study, study, study...

Author: By Robert J. Weiner, | Title: Boston Program Offers English as a Second Chance | 2/4/1989 | See Source »

...such limitations ultimately amount to little more than inconveniences, teachers say. Brown says her year ultimately taught her more than how to teach in a classroom. "I enjoyed being stripped down to my basic personality and my basic attitudes...[without] those pressures which make people act in a certain way. What you wear and say and look like didn't matter there," she says...

Author: By Amy B. Shuffelton, | Title: Teaching Children in the Heart of Africa | 2/4/1989 | See Source »

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