Word: blackboarding
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...gets 800 letters a day. When it's time for a Soupy Sez blackboard two-liner ("Show me a country that has only pink automobiles . . . and I'll show you a pink carnation"), fans mumble the predictable lines along with him and then fall on their heads with delight. "It's some sort of a love thing," explains his manager, who calls himself Irving Manager. Soup's humor is epidemically catching...
When a child surpasses in arithmetic, his name goes on the blackboard in colored chalk. One day last week, five names were on the board and, explained Mrs. McKenney, "Connie's name should also be in color, but yellow is the only color left and she detests yellow." The school's prized science exhibit is a pickled bat; its biologically educational mascot is a live monkey...
...Wastebasket) of staff directives, lesson plans, and faculty memos, and she has now extended it to novel length. But her characters-including the inevitable Fat Girl and the Fatuous Principal-are also mostly paperwork. A well-intentioned polemic turns out to be Our Miss Brooks in the Blackboard Jungle...
...singsong voice and unmelodiously flat Latin pronunciation, and end by despairing at his blithe unconcern for the frailties of lesser intellects. Once, after failing to get a philosophical point across to his class, Lonergan brightened, said: "I think this will make it clear," proceeded to cover the blackboard with differential equations. During a World War II discussion about the loss to mankind in bomb-gutted libraries, Lonergan argued that the important things were in people's minds, not in books. In answer, someone cited Shakespeare and got out a copy to cite lines at random. In each case, Lonergan...
...what is perhaps the most recent radical transformation of a school district's plant, has built four new schoolhouses that are circular or hexagonal. Moreover, they have no windows, and one of them has carpets on all the floors. "We know that a good teacher and a good blackboard are the fundamentals of teaching," says Leslie K. Grimes, school superintendent in Greeley. "But we also think that the good teacher can do better in a comfortable, air-conditioned room without noise and glare...