Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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English Professor Daniel Seltzer's classroom antics have made him a character on the Princeton University campus; during lectures, he suddenly breaks into near perfect imitations of Peter Lorre or John Gielgud or a Jewish mother. He can also transform his Shakespeare and modern drama classes into vibrant theater, effortlessly slipping into the role of King Lear, perhaps, or Uncle Vanya. But to the dismay of Seltzer's students, their professor is saving his best dramatic efforts these days for enthusiastic audiences on Broadway...
...employees has plummeted. Many workers complain that their families are being shunned or ridiculed because they work for Marubeni. One employee said that his child was nicknamed "Lockheed" by his schoolmates; another complained that his son's teacher displayed a picture of a Marubeni executive in the classroom, labeling it "dangerous villain." Some wives of Marubeni workers have taken to shopping at night to avoid the cold stares of neighbors. Perhaps most insulting of all, Tokyo's Crown Record Company is trying to profit from Marubeni's misfortune. Next month it will release a pop-rock single...
Traditionally, a man of the cloth, of the bar and of the classroom has been chosen to judge the Boylston finals. In April, David Steiner '54, general counsel for the University, Preston N. Williams, Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change at the Divinity School and Mary Anne Schwalbe, director of admissions, will sit on the judgment panel...
...area...the pulling of teeth by decidedly non-licensed practitioners...and the 'Hot Table,'" something pioneered by the Iranians which gradually toasts and ultimately burns the strapped-in prisoner. Iranian exiles report that SAVAK, estimated to be 70,000 strong, has at least two agents or informers in every classroom. And the police are known to monitor the whereabouts of every Iranian studying in the United States...
...Proposition #9: Only stricter traffic laws can prevent accidents," reads the blackboard of a fifth-floor classroom in Boylston Hall. The conservatively dressed professor of Arabic sits down at the table before the board, spiral notebook open before him, and begins the day's debate...