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...East German Communist radio said the Tass declaration was an answer to "the totally unreal suggestions of a tank breakthrough to Berlin and creation of a corridor carved out from part of the (East) German Democratic Republic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: West German Leaders Pledge Common Stand | 12/13/1958 | See Source »

Georgia's lawyers and reporters alike walk on tiptoe in the presence of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Durwood T. Pye, a terrible-tempered, robe-twitching jurist whose boiling point is the lowest on the Atlanta bench. Pye once ordered the wholesale arrest of noisy loungers in a corridor outside his courtroom, had to reverse himself when it developed that the loudest noisemaker was a fellow judge, telling jokes at the Coke machine. Last week, mustering a group courage, the Georgia press loudly complained that the autocratic judge had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Long Reach of the Law | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Reporter Allen's story is a shocker. Some of the things that strike a new teacher at John Marshall: a fulltime policeman inside the building; a teacher patrolling each corridor; students' coats locked up each morning so children will be less likely to run away from school; girls sent to the lavatory two-by-two so that they will not be attacked sexually. Allen taught English to "average" eighthgraders and two classes of ninth-graders euphemistically called "slow learners." Their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Undercover Teacher | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...alternate Wednesday evenings throughout the school year, ten Yale undergraduates and several Faculty members enter Gothic Strathcona Hall, ride the self-service elevator to the fourth floor, and then stride down the corridor to the plush Torch Room. The students are Yale's Scholars of the House; the Faculty are among their advisers...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: The Scholars of the House Program at Yale: Praise From the Faculty, Student Criticism | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

Like most every corridor we pursue into Genet's devious, intriguing mind, this one brings us up against a solid stone question mark. Every statement, perhaps, that can be made about Deathwatch can be convincingly refuted by following up a different train of hints. But then, J.-P. Sartre calls Genet a black magician, and it is no wonder we are unsure how his spells should be pronounced, or what spirits they are intended to call up. All that is certain is that the spell is most strangely and subtly effective

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Genet's Deathwatch in New York | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

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