Word: eliotisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weissbecker's considerations that led to the rejection of both Dunster and Mather as hot breakfast Houses. These two Houses share a kitchen of their own. By contrast, Leverett, Winthrop, Lowell, Kirkland and Eliot all receive food from the central University kitchen, which must be kept open anyway. Once the central kitchen has been geared up, opening one more hall is cheaper than opening a separate facility, like Mather-Dunster. So Weissbecker picked Kirkland, Leverett and Quincy as the hot breakfast River Houses...
There is not much wrong with the Eliot House version of A Little Night Music that tighter direction and a few good voices could not fix. This is not to say that the acting is good; some of it is terrible. But by far the best thing about this musical is Stephen Sondheim's marvelously sophisticated and tuneful score, and to stage a production which fails to do justice to it is more than foolish. It is a dramatic crime...
...roots of society. "Why has this school [the Nairobe School] not failed its children? Because its teachers must successfully teach in order to keep their jobs...in many public schools, teacher attitudes keep on blocking the door." In a chapter called "Visiting Professor From the Real World," Dr. Eliot Shapiro, the elected community superintendent of a district in Harlem, hints at a different kind of "accountability" in education...
...House groups are: Leverett, Mather, and Dunster; Adams, Quincy, and Lowell; Eliot, Kirkland, and Winthrop; and South, North, and Currier...
Leverett House, along with Kirkland, Eliot, Lowell and Winthrop Houses, is part of the central kitchen system, which must be opened for breakfast anyway...