Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...These classroom antics, all part of two seminars involving the performing arts, are par for the courses at the New School, where the curriculum more closely reflects the thinking of Phineas T. Barnum than that of James B. Conant. Humorist Lily Tomlin recently stood on her head to refresh herself while teaching a class on satire. John Lennon will be the guest lecturer this week in a course called Making It in Rock. The New School Bulletin, a catalogue that might be better titled The Best of Club Med and Esalen East, routinely offers courses like Psycho-karate, Body Language...
...Everyone in the classroom knew she had neither the brains or the background to be there, so we just kind of assumed she was a Cabot and that was why she was at Harvard," Holly Frost, a member of her section says. "When she did speak," Frost remembers, "it was obvious her statements had come from someplace else. They just didn't fit in--they weren't said at the right time...
Those who simply incite "imminent lawless conduct" would be imprisoned under S-1. That provision of the bill would cover anybody who speaks of revolution, out on the street or in a classroom...
...situation is pure H-Y-M-A-N KAPLAN, but its development is impure MASH. It is the first night of a course designed to give recent immigrants a nodding acquaintance with their new language. Out of the melting pot and into an empty classroom drip a Frenchman, an Italian, a German and two Oriental women, none of whom has any language in common with the others. Nor, it turns out, does their late-arriving teacher, Debbie Wastba (Diane Keaton), have anything but pantomime and a feverish determination to fall back upon as she goes about her unfamiliar duties...
...sponsored coup, has been run as a dictatorship. For the Med School to do so would mean ignoring Iran's 70,000 member secret police force, which keeps tight control on political action and education, spreading its web tight enough to include at least one agent in every university classroom. It would mean denying the 25,000 political prisoners now in Iran. It would mean justifying the use of torture...