Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called the Cultural Revolution, but the decade-long upheaval that ended in 1976 with Mao Tse-tung's death was a time of sorrow and hardship for China's scholars. Roughneck Red Guards took over classroom and campus; universities were shut down. Academic standards sank to scandalously low levels. Eminent teachers and scientists were sent off to the countryside for "re-education," to work as farm hands and laborers. Science came virtually to a standstill...
...fundatmental weakness of the production is the script itself--it lacks plot. We get no sense of personal conflict between the two men, but rather a brief overview of their political disagreements--a topic better left th the classroom...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Helene Gittleman, a former Brown University graduate student, has filed suit against the university, alleging that negligent security there resulted in a sexual assualt on her in a campus classroom two years...
...year from that fund and finding it mighty hard to make do. Earlier retirement, mean while, is shortening the period during which people contribute to pension funds and stretching out the years during which they receive benefits. A decade ago, California teachers averaged 28 years in the classroom, but now they are leaving after 21 years. The average Army enlisted man retires at about 40-and then collects a pension for more than 30 years...
That is the goal of Shelter Founders Pat Hennin, 34, and his wife Patsy, 35. Five years ago, after they built a house (for a friend), they decided to teach others. Pat abandoned his law career, and the Hennins started their school in a $50-a-month classroom. Though the institute now occupies three buildings, the Hennins remain dedicated to simplicity. Says Pat: "The construction business has made building into a mystery by breaking it up into specialties. Carpenters do not know plumbing. Plumbers cannot lay a foundation. We have just drawn it all together to let people...