Word: desks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classroom. The professor, of course, was delighted at the system which afforded him much free time. After his taped lectures had been playing for several months, he decided to visit one of his classes himself. As he opened the door he saw his recorder on the front desk, merrily lecturing to 65 small tape recorders, one on each desk of the deserted classroom...
...which Kozol supports with more rhetoric than hard facts. His own prose style is larded with prejudice (School Committee Member Lee "looked out over his half-moon glasses almost like a childish madman"). Some of his statements are pure bathos; when a blackboard falls on a girl's desk, Kozol asks: "Was she saying with those eyes which looked down so steadily, as if with apology, that she really felt very sorry and did not mean to have gotten her small head in the way of the board?" Kozol's indignation is also a bit belated; he admits...
...Bois clubs drummed up 1,000 screaming students (total enrollment: 25,000) to protest not only the presence on campus of two Navy recruiting officers but also the refusal of the college administration to allow a rival group to set up a non-recruiting table across from the Navy desk. Soon student fists and police clubs were flailing, and ten students were hustled into a paddy wagon. When the flak had cleared, the Navy recruiters went to work and signed up ten prospective Officer Candidate School members-more than they normally net at other schools in the New York area...
...dean's new desk will be no honorarium. The 115-year-old bank has risen to eleventh largest in the nation under Executive Committee Chairman Ransom M. Cook, 68, who gave up the chairmanship last fall, and current Chairman H. Stephen Chase, 64. When the two retire-Cook at year's end, Chase next May-Wells Fargo's reins will go to Arbuckle, 55, and Richard P. Cooley, who was appointed president and chief executive officer last November at the lean...
...moral and material trappings--bare feet, beards, long hair, birth control pills ("We've found birth control pills at every raid," he thundered), pre-marital intercourse, Digger-type communes, even the sort of liberated prose of the Avatar, certain columns of which lie heavily penciled on the Mayor's desk...