Word: casebooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he gets sufficiently sick of himself and the present, he goes rummaging through history for one of his casebook period pieces like Luther, and now A Patriot for Me. The plays are seriously defective-partly because Osborne's own voice is badly muffled, and partly because he cannot work up the passion to breathe an inner life into these works. A further drawback is that he has a high-school-pageant idea of history. Everything moves episodically, in jerky vignettes, with time as a cardboard backdrop. The characters are not immersed in history, they merely wear it like...
...exception is General Francisco Franco's Spain, which still presides over a small African colonial empire of 120,000 sq. mi. and 1,400,000 people. Spain's African provinces-Spanish Sahara, Spanish Guinea, the Canary Islands and three scattered coastal outposts-stand out as a rare casebook of how to win friends and create prosperity on a violently turbulent continent. Now Spain is preparing to grant independence by July 15 to the most prosperous and politically mature of its African possessions, Spanish Guinea...
...Deal and the great jurist who was his friend and adviser. The most startling aspect of that view is Felix Frankfurter's capacity for ladling out the adulation and his President's insatiable capacity for lapping it up. In their candor, the letters are an almost unexampled casebook of politics and history in the making...
Commenting on legal education, Bok said yesterday that the school's casebook method "should be enriched and not abandoned." The casebook method has increasingly become the target of criticism from both students and professors...
...files were long dead, however, taken from the casebook of former applicants which the Admissions Office uses to aid high school admission counselors. Names of the five were fictitious...