Word: friedman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blue Notes, four of whom are also in Gary Berger's band, played five jazz standards with astonishing competence; there arrangements were often original, their ensemble work sharp and clean. But individual solos are the test of small-group jazz, and the Blue Notes' soloists shone. Tenor Saxophonist Ben Friedman, a real crowd-pleaser, is technically master of his instrument. His best solo, on Thelonius Monk's Straight, No Chaser, was a honking, exuberant anthology of tenor sax styles, jumping from Johnny Hodges to Ornette Coleman to John Coltrane with deftness and humor. Friedman is strongly influenced by Coltrane, with...
Four branches of the "experimental" system impressed Friedman particularly. He listed them. (1) "A teacher giving a course of his own choice and divising makes it more meaningful for himself and for his students;" (2) "I was tired of grades, and besides, I don't believe in them;" (3) "I liked the 'Conference' system;" and (4) "I believe in education through an exchange of ideas...
...pure Sarah Lawrence system exists no more. Friedman pointed to the areas of change. In the last decade the student body has increased from 370 to 540. The faculty, too, has been expanded, though not proportionately. With size has come impersonality and a diminished dedication to the original "experimental" plan...
...Sarah Lawrence's personality remains the individual students and teachers; and in them seems to lie the real shift. For as Friedman noted, most students who come to Sarah Lawrence might just as easily have gone to Radcliffe or Barnard. More and more the Sarah Lawrence girl could pass for an "eighth sister," though not yet an identical twin...
...deciding what courses will be given and how, teachers share responsibility for the school's tone. Friedman's classes stress "dialogue" and "interaction of teacher and student"--terms which he savoured continually while discussing Buber's edu-educational theory. But another, more traditional teacher, might make his course as conventional as he chose. And more and more, as the faculty expands, the college acquires the latter breed...