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...pulled up to the school, like it was very quiet. I don't know why, except I guess we were all afraid of the black people. I guess the blacks were worried about us too. At the beginning just about everybody sat at all-white tables in the cafeteria, and the whites and blacks wouldn't talk to each other very much. But we've only had twelve big arguments or fights at Jefferson since school started...
...OTHER HAND, seeing King Kong in a darkened theater on a screen larger than a cafeteria tray makes a lot of difference. Gone is the aloof disinterest of the late, late show mentality. You just can't stay uninvolved when the commercials don't come and you can't change channels. Movie theaters, even more than suburban livingrooms, were built for the suspension of disbelief. So the great ape really is larger than life: his image on the screen overwhelms...
...today, the worst part of his latest seizure past, Perry can wear street clothes if he likes. He makes his own bed and keeps his room tidy. For meals he can go to a cafeteria, and for company he has not the seriously ill but people like himself who are convalescing. Perry is in the hospital's new intermediate ward, which it calls its "selfhelp unit...
...Open Admissions was a traumatic experiment for CUNY's ten four-year colleges and eight community colleges. Last year's freshman class grew to 35,000, up 16,000 over 1969; this fall the incoming class swelled to 40,000. At Manhattan's Hunter College, a cafeteria designed for 3,000 now serves a mob of 13,000; faculty members sometimes have to share not only desks but desk drawers. University officials insist that a building program will alleviate the space squeeze, but cuts in state and city spending on CUNY have nearly halted construction...
Fierce Alarums. The reading lessons sneaked into all this entertainment are based on a study of 40 different teaching systems and consultations with more than 100 experts. What survived for next week's première shows is a "cafeteria curriculum," including variations on both the Look-Say and Phonics approaches still competing for ascendancy among U.S. reading authorities (TIME, March 29). Inevitably, in the next few weeks, the proponents of these orthodoxies and others can be expected to raise fierce alarums. Herman Keld, a spokesman of the phonics school and one of the originators...