Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always been interested in socialization processes," Irons says, looking around a rapidly emptying Law School classroom. "One of these days I'll analyze the socialization that goes on here...
...most chic of Baptist deacons from southern Georgia, Carter--with a certain amount of pride--told a small entourage of newmen following him to the dressing room about his seven-year-old daughter Amy, who attends a school back in Plains where she learns her daily lessons in a classroom with more black than white students from a black teacher. He greeted lead guitarist Betts with an earthy, "Goddam, how are you, man." Then Carter admired the red-and-white-knit-baseball-jersey-type shirt that TV hipster Geraldo Rivera was sporting--it read, "Win, Lose or Draw...The Allman...
...bookstore chain: "Chance plays an important element in the first three tries. After that it's logic." In fact, manufacturers of educational materials such as Cuisenaire in New Rochelle, N.Y., and J.L. Hammett based in Braintree, Mass, are already promoting the game to teach logic in the classroom...
...rich supporter rewrote his will to cancel a $1 million bequest; a school official received a hate letter addressed "Dear Communist Pimp." The reason? A black-studies director at Claremont Colleges near Los Angeles had hired Communist Angela Davis as a part-time lecturer. Said Davis, back in a classroom for the first time since U.C.L.A. fired her in 1970: "All I was interested in was teaching a nice, small, quiet seminar. I really didn't want it to become a carnival-type situation." So as soon as she got through her first class...
Most galaxies have been discovered by conventional optical telescopes. Earth's new galactic neighbor was "discovered" in the classroom. Simonson had been puzzling over the hydrogen clouds' radio signals for several years. But it was during a recent lecture that the message came through. Simonson knew that frequency shifts in the radio signals from one of the clouds indicated that one side of the cloud was approaching the earth while the other was moving away. Suddenly he realized why. Such movement could only mean the presence of a great rotating mass. Said Simonson: "I knew right then...