Word: cleveland
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Last September I had the chance to teach some children how to write poetry on Cleveland's East Side and to test out some of Kenneth Koch's theories about how it should be done. I first came across Koch a couple of years ago in his book, Wishes, Lies and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry, a collection of kids' poems prefaced by some lengthy remarks on teaching. I was intrigued with Koch's central idea: people's imaginations are more readily available to them when they are young; it's important to tap that flow before...
...longstanding argument over the rights of free press v. the rights to fair trial goes back, in its modern phase, to cases like the Lindbergh kidnaping: the courtroom at Bruno Hauptmann's trial turned into a grotesque circus, jammed with 150 reporters and cameramen. In the case of Cleveland Osteopath Sam Sheppard, accused of murdering his wife in 1954, the local newspapers ran a virtual crusade for conviction before and during the trial. Incredibly, the jurors at first were allowed to go home at night to read the news accounts, which sometimes even contained predictions about the next...
Mankind's authors (Mihajlo Mesarovic, director of Case Western Reserve University's Systems Research Center in Cleveland, and Eduard Pestel, head of Germany's Institute of Mechanics at the Technical University of Hannover) are subdued in tone and, if anything, more optimistic than pessimistic. Their computer treats the world not as a monolithic entity but as ten interdependent regions, each with its peculiar economic, social and geophysical characteristics...
...that for all their cash, none of the owners of the 24 major league teams felt that they could afford to have a black man calling the shots from the dugout. Until last week, that is. Then, with a ceremonial roll of the public relations drums, the Cleveland Indians announced that Robinson had stepped across baseball's ultimate color line and become the team's new manager...
...skills on his side: himself. The only man ever to win the Most Valuable Player award in both leagues, Robby will double next season as the team's designated hitter. He thus becomes the game's first playing manager since Hank Bauer at Kansas City in 1961. Cleveland's last double-duty manager, Lou Boudreau, led the Tribe to a World Series victory...