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First identified in the 1960s, the enigmatic, starlike objects called quasars are as baffling today as they were more than a decade ago when Astronomer Jesse Greenstein scribbled his poetic plaint on a Caltech blackboard. What sets quasars apart from most other celestial objects is that the light they emit is shifted drastically toward the red, or low-frequency, end of the spectrum. Just as a train whistle's lowered pitch indicates that it is moving away from the listener, so the quasars' light suggests that they are receding from the earth at tremendous speeds-some approaching...
Collins' educational philosophy is simple. "All you need to teach is a blackboard, books and a pair of legs that will last through the day," she says. "If you gave me $20,000 worth of audiovisual equipment, I'd leave it out on the sidewalk." She insists that students answer her in complete sentences and not use so-called black English. Her pupils, many of whom do not know the alphabet when they arrive, take standardized tests at the beginning and end of each year to measure their ability. Their progress has been phenomenal. Many jump from well...
Shaw is the autocrat of the blackboard. His writing hand flies furiously across the surfaces of his plays, chalking up social, moral and intellectual lessons for the playgoer-students. The class almost always relishes the talking jags of the sage of Ayot St. Lawrence, for he never created a major character who was not indubitably and ebulliently G.B.S...
...buxom diva trills in a concert hall. Suddenly-zap!-she loses the melody and desperately summons the "Melody Doctor." Enter a Groucho Marx double, complete with cigar and leer. To the tune of outrageous one-liners, he re-creates the missing melody, placing huge notes on a blackboard...
MISS MARGARIDA'S WAY by Roberto Athayde When the letter E is reached on the hurricane list, the storm should be named Estelle. As the teacher of the play's title, Estelle Parsons portrays a woman of blistered paranoia and feverish sexual frustration who qualifies as a blackboard Himmler to an eighth-grade biology class...