Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hillbilly Opera. In discussing the search for order, teachers show how this theme is found in such works as Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, The Divine Comedy and Death of a Salesman. To help them understand the difficulties of achieving esthetic order, music students at Garden City have been assigned the problem of writing operas of their own: in one, a hillbilly, over his mother's strong objections, goes to New York to pursue a career as a folk singer and becomes famous. Art students take a Vermeer masterpiece and, on a transparent overlay, convert his realism into a cubist painting...
...teachers used to rigid lesson plans, broad-gauge humanities courses are hard to teach. Parents, too, sometimes wonder about the merit of programs that are not designed to prepare students for conquering the dry, factual state Regents exams. But educators believe that in the long run such courses help students establish values and concepts that will hold good throughout their lives. "The goal is discovery," says J. William Dodd, assistant to the Garden City superintendent. "We want to present issues and problems and let the kids solve them by themselves...
...need is a friendly magistrate." As a result, the publishers are now practically begging the government to prosecute-with a jury. Their hope is obviously to give the book nationwide legal approval. Watchdog Black is all for it. As he sees it, this time a jury could not help ruling in his favor...
...penalties were nominal: suspended sentences of 30 days in jail, plus fines of $200 for Stevenson and $50 for Whittaker. More significant was the loss of a test case: Stevenson had hoped to help ease the doctor shortage by establishing the right of a well-trained technician to assist in surgery...
Loss of the Test. Attorney Frederick Cone, a partner of famed Tort Lawyer Melvin Belli, sought to prove that the kind of help rendered by Whittaker was standard. The defense involved the showing of models and color slides of gory operations, and the calling of big-name medical witnesses. A key issue was whether Dr. Stevenson had tried to get a licensed physician to assist him, at least in cases other than crash emergencies. Of the three cases before the jury, one was such an emergency. On this and one other count, the jury found both defendants not guilty...