Word: exhibitable
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., boasts another intriguing teacher-development program. With the help of his faculty, Superintendent Jay Robinson is now working out a career plan that would identify 26 qualities an instructor should exhibit. Teachers would receive extensive training through a center that already houses a library of curriculum materials and sets up workshops to sharpen skills. Favorable evaluations would lead to pay bonuses as teachers advanced up a three-step career ladder to tenured status. Says Robinson: "Merit-pay plans attempt to identify excellence and reward it. Our plan's emphasis is on creating great teachers through training...
What gives the exhibit its overwhelming character is the range and fecundity of Picasso's talent-the flashes of demonic restlessness, the heights of confidence and depths of insecurity, the relationships (alternately loving and cannibalistic) to the art of the past, but above all the sustained intensity of feeling. "Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective" contains good paintings and bad, some so weak that they look like forgeries (but are not), as well as a great many works of art for which the word masterpiece-exiled for the crime of elitism over the past decade-must now be reinstated...
...unquestioning support of Moscow's actions, no matter how offensive. Those who thought that the French Communists might have had some weakening of resolve over the shooting down of a civilian airliner were sharply reminded of ultimate loyalties by Party Boss Georges Marchais. Opening a fête exhibit titled "The Fight for Human Rights," Marchais called the incident "more complex than the caricaturish version given by those who have decided once and for all that the Soviet Union is the kingdom of evil and its leaders bloodthirsty ogres." Keeping his orthodox shibboleths in order, he accused...
...office will also exhibit photographs of its events and will publish a series of interviews conducted this past summer with top Harvard administrators--Presidents Bok and Horner, Dean of students Archie C. Epps III, and Dean of the College John B. Fox--who describe their interests in the arts...
...York City last week, visitors flocked to one of the largest displays of high-technology protection gear ever assembled. The vast and ear-splitting array was on view at the International Security Conference and Exposition. Among devices in the more-than-500-booth exhibit was a $2,000 alarm made by Texas-based Sennet Systems that is equipped with a computer-synthesized voice. When activated, the unit can phone a homeowner anywhere in the U.S. and use its 256-word vocabulary to alert him to the precise nature of a security problem. Linear Corp. of Inglewood, Calif., showed...