Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fifth of the season with a broken shoulder, has contributed 19 goals and 19 assists. For muscle, there is Reggie Fleming, a stocky "bad boy" who has spent 122 minutes in the penalty box-not to mention Orland Kurtenbach, who twice last year scored one-punch knockouts in extracurricular contests on the ice. And Goalie Ed Giacomin leads the league in shutouts...
...were a time nobody loved. But for young Americans today, the period has become a nostalgic treasure trove. Stores from coast to coast are advertising ruffles and the Harlow look; the late show provides a touchstone by rerunning the movie classics; and Bonnie and Clyde is mandatory in all extracurricular undergraduate courses. But as is often the case with trends, artists have been well in the vanguard of popular taste, and some of the most gifted have been on a '30s kick for years (see color opposite...
...Jews, and holds a benefit dinner for wives and children of deceased concentration-camp guards; a school play casts ten-year-olds in a staging of Sade's Philosophy in the Bedroom; a teacher encourages the academic achievement of her boy students by rewarding them in an entirely extracurricular manner; a nun appearing on a Joe Pyne-style TV insult program is publicly reduced to a fluttering wreck when the M.C. savagely probes into her sex life; an aged international entertainment biggie, known only as Star Maker, stays alive on the transplanted organs of his employees...
...study groups, like the old ones, are extracurricular, open to upperclassmen and graduate students. The new groups will discuss decision-making in Congress, third parties in American presidential elections, and intellectuals in politics...
...some cities, children are learning to make movies at the same time that they are mastering the ABCs. In Lexington, Mass., for example, Yvonne Andersen, 36, runs an extracurricular workshop where children aged five to twelve are introduced to the rudiments of animated film. Their work shows a freedom, verve and humor that Disney might have admired. Their short subjects (four minutes maximum) range from settings of favorite nursery rhymes to imaginative moralistic fables like The Amazing Colossal Man, written and produced by a dozen workshoppers. In this no-nonsense parable, suspicious earthlings annihilate a peace envoy from outer space...