Word: grouped
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Martin described the group as "a response to public discontent with the quality of high school English teaching." The member colleges and schools of the C.E.E.B. have also become increasingly dissatisfied with the results of English instruction, he explained. Martin cautioned, however, "There is no proof, only a general impression, that students today read and write worse than students of 25 years...
Another concern of the study is how new educational devices can ease the burden of teachers in an overcrowded school system. The group will also study current English textbooks and suggest improvements...
Something must have happened during intermission of last night's program by the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Radcliffe Dance Group. What had started out as a group of performances ranging from mediocre on downwards was suddenly transformed into a concert that made even the more disgruntled members of the audience feel it had been worth while after...
...Ciardi had despaired of a major professional production for years to come--on the stage of the ANTA Theatre, at the corner of 52nd Street and Broadway, Archibald MacLeish's "play in verse" received its New York City premiere. The production had enlisted a somewhat disparate but unquestionably distinguished group of the biggest talents in the business: Elia Kazan, Boris Aronson, Raymond Massey, Christopher Plummer, Pat Hingle. Everyone involved, in Newsweek's candid prose, was taking "a calculated risk; the drama had arrived via the egghead circuit." But virtue was rewarded, for J.B. proved to be "a sort of theatrical...
...well as the problem of schedules, the group will consider the probable changes in the role of House drama when the Loeb drama center opens, and the possibility of a "pool of equipment and ideas," Henning said...