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...class waggles fingers, wrists, arms and spines in a ragged ballet of calisthenics, then switches to vocal knee-bends: OHO, OHO; AHA, AHA; ZZZZHH, ZZZZHH ; UMPAH, UMPAH; OOOOH, OOOOH. The personage in whose honor the morning rites are performed is abrupt, autocratic, rumpled Professor Paul Baker, 47, head of Baylor University's department of dramatics. In the judgment of Actor Charles Laughton, an old friend, Baker is "crude, arrogant, irritating, nuts and a genius." He is also one of the most effective college teachers in the country...
...Paul Baker's object is to spade up whatever creative ability a student has. By sweet reasonableness or sour harangue, he prods course-takers to write stories, paint pictures and compose music. False notes and failed paintings are unimportant in this basic course, which is required for Baylor undergraduates; all Baker wants students to do is "get acquainted with their own minds-which, incidentally, very few people do during a lifetime." The drill team quality of the calisthenics is deceptive. Says a colleague: "His respect for the individual mind is infinite. He has the uncanny ability to see some...
Anchor Prince. Baylor's furious fountainhead of theater is burningly scornful of academic mediocrity, preaches that "great teaching lies just short of prophecy." His own contribution to anticipating the future has been to establish at the Baptist school in Waco, Texas one of the most fertile experimental theaters in the U.S. In 1953 he startled Shakespeareans with an Othello that split the Moor into three abstractly made-up characters who represented separate aspects of the tormented hero's character. Three years later he persuaded Actor Burgess Meredith to quit his role as Sakini in Teahouse of the August...
...trouble deciding where to spend his scholarship money. He is headed for Caltech (three of the other four top winners also want to study there), hopes to work after graduation in nuclear physics or rocket research. He knows an impressive amount already about both subjects. At the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tenn., where he built the accelerator, he and a research team of schoolboy scientists hope this summer to fire off a stratospheric rocket with a 20-lb. instrument payload. The first-prize winner also plays chess, wrestles on the varsity team at Baylor, talks enthusiastically about the arduous pleasures...
Fleming and Ellis played as advertised against the Cincinnati Royals, but Baylor sat adamantly on the bench in street clothes, watched as the Lakers dropped their fifth straight game. At game's end a little white boy expressed disappointment that Elgin had not played. Said Baylor: "Son, I'm a little disappointed myself...