Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some cases have been quietly encouraged by faculty members-are intended to disrupt Dow's current campus recruiting efforts. Despite the campaign of harassment, however, the company is running at about the same pace as last year in signing up graduating students. At Harvard last week Dow Lab Director Frederick Leavitt was barricaded for seven hours in a conference room by 250 students demanding that Harvard officials ban him from the campus. University officials instead picked up the I.D. cards of the protesting students, pondered whether to punish them...
Walking on Clouds. The foundation's shock technique attempts to jar the children into attention and keep them from being distracted. Administrative Director S. Willard Footlik explains that the degree of force is fitted to the needs of each pupil and contends that "the children realize we aren't yelling at them because we're mad at them." The commands, he says, are always something the children are capable of carrying out-and when they do, "they walk on clouds because they have succeeded." The harsh drills are designed to help the children to control their actions...
...double their rate of learning; Footlik claims that the clinic so far has not failed to improve the reading ability of any child who sticks with the drills long enough. No one yet knows, however, whether the bullying technique has harmful long-range effects on personality development. James Weddell, director of Purdue University's Achievement Center for Children, says some of his staff have been "appalled" by the indiscriminate use of force at the clinic, and he fears it may "tear some kids asunder emotionally...
...hand to host the guests, including Art Institute Director Charles Cunningham, whose museum's president backed up his good wishes with a $50,000 donation, was the Contemporary's director, Netherlands-born Jan van der Marck, 38, former director of Minneapolis' Walker Art Center. While studying museum organization and finances on a two-year Rockefeller Foundation grant, Van der Marck realized that the early success of institutions like Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was based on their exhibitions long before they had a chance to build up their permanent collections. Van der Marck intends...
...bring the finest in contemporary art to Pittsburgh. But the current budget of $160,000 does not go far in today's rapidly expanding art world. The U.S.'s current exhibit at São Paulo alone cost $70,000 to mount. Despite his budgetary problems, Director Gustave von Groschwitz unveiled a formidable 44th Carnegie exhibition last week. An international jury found so many works of merit that it selected not one, but six artists as winners of $2,000 prizes (see color pages...