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...must add character through gesture or vocal power where the script doesn't supply it. Finch's male actors aren't good enough; all of them give unmodulated one-note performances. If an actor happens to hit the right note, as in the case of Tim Hall's paranoid Danforth, the performance can be extremely effective. But in the first two acts, Steve Hill as the nasty Reverend Parris and John Brady as the humane Reverend Hale might just as well be playing each other's parts, or David Blocker's part as Putnam, for all the difference between them...
...private preparatory schools as well as whatever amounts Dean Sizer hopes the federal government will spend in aid to these obviously impoverished institutions and give them instead to the schools truly in need of help--in the slums and rural areas. The $170,000 to be spent by the Danforth Foundation for its "study" of prep schools alone would pay for a full year's improved operation of the public school systems in any one of a number of counties in West Virginia or for salaries for upwards of twenty excellent high school teachers in Watts...
...conference, it was announced that a major study of financing, curriculum and teacher training in "independent" schools will begin in September, financed by a $170,000 grant from the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis...
Despite the topicality of student protest, most speakers who took a broad look at the college generation fell far short of despair. Robert Rankin, associate director of the Danforth Foundation, told University of Redlands graduates that "you embody less silliness, a greater degree of personal maturity, more concern about humanity, and more candor and integrity than any student generation in this century...
...administrators from firing stale and incompetent teachers. Sociology Professor Robert Nisbet of the University of California's Riverside campus calls tenure "a blend of mystique and the sacred, as nearly impregnable a form of differential privilege as the mind of man has ever devised." The teaching profession, says the Danforth Foundation's Merrimon Cuninggim, "is the only profession that has no definition for malpractice." Even mental deterioration is no cause for dismissal, and, says Nisbet, "a single man can cause intellectual blight year after year" in students and faculty...