Word: booths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high school physics course, the new biology program written last summer by the American Institute of Biological Sciences, and the new math teaching developed at the University of Illinois (TIME, July 25). The school has seven science labs, a greenhouse, an animal house and a 30-booth language lab. Since Brown believes that the "college-bound student should be able to handle four years each of two languages," the school teaches Latin, French, German, Spanish, Russian, and now Chinese. Says Brown: "The secret is to make the curriculum as exciting as possible, and just as exciting for the slow...
...lifelong bachelor and semi-recluse who at his death at 76 was dodging attention by living under the name of "Mr. Booth," Turner did have his warmhearted moments. Aside from painting, his greatest ambition was to found a home for "decayed English artists (Landscape Painters only) and single men." And at one exhibition when the high colors of one of his paintings overshadowed those in two nearby Lawrence portraits, Turner tactfully smudged his own canvas with lampblack-which he washed off after the show...
April 11: George V. Allen, director of the Harvard Square Information Booth, assures visitors, "We've never had it so good...
...curiosity," Moore's method is to let the child "control" his learning. As the child strikes typewriter keys, an instructor names the character printed. (One delighted child hit the asterisk key 75 times to test teacher's stamina.) Sitting beside his "student" in a gadget-filled booth, which has 60-odd switches to pique the child's curiosity, the instructor also projects the chosen letters on a screen. After each half-hour typing session, the child prints the letters on a blackboard, soon works up to complete words and eventually to sentences...
...opening night their repertory-or their improvisations-came at times from the common hoard of satire and seemed aimed at the common herd. But even with phone-booth frustrations or bear-hugging mothers, with Tennessee Williams-type drama or the P.T.A., there were happy surprises. In fact, by combining the last two themes-by having Elaine act as P.T.A. chairman for an evening of Art and Mike act as the Southern playwright speaker-they reached the evening's peak. They reached it partly, perhaps, because each did a monologue in his own uninterrupted, unblurred style. When the two play...