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...some of Coleman's conclusions about the ineffectiveness of compensatory education are being questioned. In an excellent assessment of Coleman's data and some other relevant research, Henry S. Dyer maintains that while some school factors have no effect on achievement, other inputs are important in spurring achievement. The great contribution of the Coleman survey, Dyer contends, is in establishing the precedent of testing empirically the effect of school factors on achievement...
Vigier and Reginald R. Issacs, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning, said there was a need to move quickly to control and guide the rapid development of the island...
...play to another with scarcely a pause. Now he performs in two productions a year. "I reached the point," he says, "where it was time to do less-not to make less effort, but to put that effort into fewer plays." The current play for this season is Charles Dyer's Staircase, now running at the Royal Shakespeare's London theater...
...pair so tight he was a sight. When Rouben tinted the pants dark brown, Ruggieri went into a rage. "You ruined them!" he cried. "You dyed them!" "I didn't dye them, I painted them!" huffed Rouben. "I'm a painter, not a dyer!" Moaned Director Menotti: "Why is it that an Englishman is always adjusting his tie, a Frenchman is always checking his pocket for his wallet, and Italians are always showing themselves off in tight pants...
...nothing approached Die Frau ohne Schatten. Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto requires a primer course in the mythology of six cultures in order to be fathomed, moves murkily between the spirit world, the human world of an impoverished dyer and his sensuous wife (Baritone Walter Berry and Soprano Christa Ludwig), and the go-between world of an emperor and his wife (Tenor James King and Soprano Leonie Rysanek). The empress, alas, is without a shadow-she cannot bear children-and with the aid of a Mephistophelean nurse (Mezzo-Soprano Irene Dalis) she attempts to divest the dyer...