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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School near Ann Arbor, Mich. In rustically modern buildings, 230 boys are housed in individual rooms, attend classes of no more than a dozen students, share 22 fully certified teachers. Most of the boys take a technical curriculum, including such subjects as typing, auto mechanics and metal work, plus English, science, math, art and social studies. One group of 24 boys is pursuing a normal college-preparatory course...
With a federal grant, the University of Michigan's English Professor Daniel Fader has devised a special English course for Maxey boys. Arguing that "no hardbound text was ever thrust into a boy's hip pocket," he has thrown out such books, replaced them with paperbacks ranging from James Bond to Erich Fromm. When he first arrives at the school, each boy can select two from drugstore-type racks, keep them or exchange them with other boys -and no one tries to keep track of them. Fader also advises constant practice in writing. Boys are encouraged to keep...
...good deal easier than picking them at age ten. One student out of the first group--20 member of the Class of '61--had grown up in California's Imperial Valley, where his father made $4500 a year icing railroad cars. His mother, a Mexican, spoke little English, and neither parent wanted their son to go to college. The student's Scholastic Aptitude Test verbal score was 415, and his math score was 452. The college guide books caution that scores this low often indicate a serious inability to cope with college work. Yet the boy was first...
With the best professional company in Boston, and the best modern playwright in the English language, the Charles has managed to concoct a tasteless and annoying comedy. If the director had understood his author, success, not failure, might have greeted him. Perhaps he should have peeked in on the Loeb's production. He would have learned little about acting, but a lot about Shaw...
...paranoiacs of 50 poets. Lowry first appears as "a small boy chased by furies." He strummed a guitar in dives, "ran away to sea," and the last thing he did to please his bewildered father, a Liverpool cotton broker who fox-hunted, was to graduate (third-class honors) in English from Cambridge. Years of wandering as a merchant seaman, a marriage in Paris, and a minor novel (Ultramarine, a Melville-and-blue-water affair) lay ahead before he fetched up in Mexico on a midget paternal subsidy...