Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like virtually everything in the theater, the revival is an enterprise of high risk. In addition to normal hazards, it must compete with the playgoer's memories of past productions or expectations aroused in the classroom or the library. In an era of relative creative dearth like the present, a spate of revivals comes to the fore as the theater's defensive mechanism of survival. Some are delightful, some are dreadful, all are instructive; it is invariably interesting to see what the effects of time, changing values or an altered milieu have had on a classic. Some current...
...former chefs have left over the years to open restaurants of their own. She does not object to training future competitors. In fact, she is negotiating with the Labor Department to run a job-training project that would teach Americans to become Chinese chefs, using her kitchen as the classroom...
...declared that it could give the teachers no more. In fact, the board had tried to retrench. Last year it cut a scheduled pay increase from 8% to 5.5%, and this year it planned to lay off all employees for 17 days, eliminate 1,200 teaching jobs and reduce classroom supplies. In the face of public opposition, the board abandoned those plans. Then negotiations began on a new contract. By normal standards, the teachers' demands were modest enough-a 2.5% pay raise (the amount that had been trimmed away the previous year), a reduction in class size (now about...
...Where did I find certain details--the scenes in Harlem, young people, parties? It's all experience, again. When I was a kid. I lived right on the edge of a black neighborhood. Later (1948-49), I taught evening classes in Harlem. I was the only white in the classroom; at night I walked through Harlem alone. I have black friends, I read black fiction. As for the parties, the human confrontations? Out of experience. I teach on a college campus (Bennington). I have two children of my own. I watch television and to to movies. During the past five...
...have revised the lecture system. Formerly a lecturer would often leave the classroom immediately after delivering his lecture, but now he takes time to meet with students who want in analyzing problems that arise less time is spent in lecturing more in study by oneself...