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...A.I.A. banquet, he received his medal with disarming modesty. "I make you my last confession," he said. "I live in the skin of a student." Then he was off to Manhattan for the ordeal at Columbia. He arrived on campus as sirens wailed for an air-raid drill. Students were all around bearing placards that said, "Shelters are no substitute for Peace!" He got into a coffin-sized elevator that promptly went down instead of up. "It's like a setting for an assassination," he muttered. But that night he was all smiles again. To a standing ovation...
...boys, on the other hand, were impressed with the NROTC drill, the firemen sliding down a pole, the boat rides, the tour of the CRIMSON, and the Museum. The boys group from the Cambridge Community Center liked "the dinosaurs and stuff like that" and "the man who almost fell off the pole in the fire station...
What could be more rote drill than Skinner's "one-step-at-a-time teaching, immediately 'reinforcing' each correct response with a grain of corn." What could be more inflexible than this or the sample of a programed high school physics lesson as shown...
...going back to the drill approach to learning...
Shot from a Box. The paparazzi are a small crew-a couple of dozen at most -and they are more bullyboys than news photographers. They lounge beneath lampposts, lips leaking cigarettes, cameras drawn like automatics. "Come see lo facio secco [When he comes out, I'll drill him]," they snarl, while waiting for their quarry to open a nightclub door. Then the paparazzi attack. These days they find more and more targets. Easter is past, celebrities are drifting down the peninsula, and hot times are ahead...