Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each 45-minute class, a Harvard undergraduate works with two or three children, teaching them simple dance steps. "We start with simple movements like how to move quickly and slowly--really basic things," says Citystep instructor Magdalena Hernandez '90. The movements gradually become more complicated, she says. The children pretend to be different animals including a borsch bear which is a really heavy movement", a "cool cat", a "slithery snake where they slither across the floor" and a "fierce fox where they run and jump...
...Their basic level of co-ordination is different. The kids who went through Citystep as fifth graders pick up steps quicker. They're used to thinking in counts. They are used to thinking in terms of right or left or up and down," Roth says. "I can teach a step in half the time that people in school programs do," she adds...
...kind has been dropping steadily for several decades. Schools are often preoccupied with problems of racial integration, political intervention, drugs, and strikes while suffering the effects of a long-term decline in the status of teachers. Religious institutions no long seem as able as they once were to impart basic values to the young. In these circumstances, universities, including Harvard, need to think hard about what they can do in the face of what many perceive as a widespread decline in ethical standards...
...speak openly--a lack of glasnost. But in personal talks at students' homes or in the local student club, words flowed easily, and students were sincere, open and critical. We spent our free time walking around the city together, talking and laughing, We intellectualized our differences while making our basic similarities known. One-on-one discussions proved that the Soviet students were candidly critical of the Soviet system as it existed, yet hopeful for change...
Doctors also rely on medication, though cortisone, a mainstay of less experienced physicians, is frowned upon by specialists because it relieves symptoms without correcting the basic problem. Surgery is generally a last resort because it may leave scar tissue that can interfere with agility. Rock Drummer Max Weinberg, who underwent seven operations on his fingers to keep his hands from clenching, had no such damage. Currently on tour with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, he downs six aspirins a day and does hand warm-up exercises for 45 minutes before a show. Afterward he chills his hands...