Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Loeb Experimental Theatre is in some ways not a theatre at all. It has more in common with a workshop or a classroom, where new ideas can be born, developed or rejected. The process of education can go on frankly there, free of the careerist anxieties that attend a polished Main Stage play...
...semidocumentary on New York police work filmed in the city streets, is finished too. The last vestiges of live, prime-time drama, the U.S. Steel Hour and Armstrong Circle Theater, are also passing away. Moreover, all three college-level educational shows are leaving the networks: Meet the Professor, Continental Classroom, The College...
...string ensemble, ballet and drama groups are already deep into rehearsals. The sheer responsiveness of the students inspires the 27-man faculty recruited from high schools and colleges in nine states. One college instructor found that he had taught in three days what consumes a month in his college classroom. Says Political Science Instructor Jivan Tabibian of Wake Forest College: "If we could only do this with students like these for nine months, the result would be almost beyond imagination...
Brisk Pace. The students now on campus are attending free of charge, except for their transportation. The school is totally desegregated; 30 students and one faculty member are Negroes. And the pace is brisk: with 144 hours of classroom instruction devoted to a major study area, each student in eight weeks will do the equivalent of a year's work in one subject. In addition, on three afternoons a week, the student attends two-hour classes in a subsidiary field of interest. Twice a week, there are two-hour seminar sessions on the great ideas, and every evening there...
...students marched to the university president's house shouting "To hell with Autherine!" and "Keep 'Bama white!" Two days later, rioting students hurled stones and eggs at the car in which she was riding to class, pursued the car to the classroom building. With the mob yelling outside, she waited in the building until state policemen arrived to escort her to safety. She shortly went home to Birmingham. And she never returned to Tuscaloosa...