Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classroom, we were anxious to compensate for the fifteen years of dreary teaching most of the Shaw students had gotten. But we were well aware that simple drill was not going to achieve miracles...
Please pay close attention to "we were anxious to compensate for the fifteen years." You were so sure you could do it that you did not even bother to insert "attempt to compensate." Moreover, fifteen years is a tremendous overstatement. It, too, reflects that inflated opinion of yourself...
...which might have made a vert nice fifteen or twenty minute flick, but an hour and a half is ridiculous. Other things that are bad about the movie are the music (which comes in with the subtlety of a napalm raid), the dialogue (such conversations as "Winter is so long." "And summer is so short." "That is because in the summer we are so busy preparing for the winter."), and the acting, which, by any standards, is quite poor...
...articulate and intelligent performance in a generally excellent cast. Frank Hartenstein's lighting added more to characterization than one dares hope for at the Loeb: a scene between Coriolanus and six others on a balcony proved remarkable in that only Coriolanus's shadow was projected onto the stage floor fifteen feet below, serving to isolate him completely from the other more reasonable characters...
...classroom, we were anxious to compensate for the fifteen years of dreary teaching most of the Shaw students had gotten. But we were well aware that simple drill was not going to achieve miracles; we toyed with shock techniques designed to persuade students that classroom thinking could be related to their experience. One of the first essays assigned asked students to answer the question, 'If God had not approved of drinking, why did he make alcohol?" The response varied from enthusiastic to sullen. Some tutees never showed up after the first meeting...