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Still suffering from the sulks when shooting ended, he auditioned for Joseph Papp's Lincoln Center production of Julius Caesar. At last he was to be Cassius. "I went home, and for the first time I did homework," he says. "It felt so good to struggle over a part!" Two days into rehearsal, however, Papp canceled the production, and Dreyfuss "just went crazy. For about a year and a half I went berserk, I took drugs, and I started drinking a bottle of cognac...
John Johnson a strict, highly respected math teacher, has been at Marshfield for 18 years. He accepts the obvious: students are not taking the traditional math courses because "the homework has dropped off in other courses and it's easier for kids to get good grades elsewhere." A stocky, gray-haired man who is also head basketball coach, Johnson worries that the simplified math offerings are "an easy
...heard lament; so is "They don t push you enough." Senior Brenda Steward is having no trouble fielding trigonometry, chemistry and British literature along with a 30-hour-a-week waitress job at a local restaurant called the Green Bandit. Says she: "Teachers don't assign homework; they don't believe in it." (The teachers' version, however, is that many students will not do homework when it is assigned.) Adds Senior Dennis Campbell: "It's so easy to get through here. I could make it by going to classes just twice a week...
...Homework commands three hours a night. For those who do not leave the academic track for a technical one, the system culminates in a stiff national baccalaureat, composed of four-hour tests in each subject and an oral final. On average, only 67% of students who take the exam-mandatory for acceptance to college-manage to pass...
...Saturday Night Live. In one routine he deadpanned his way through a comic turn satirizing none other than Ralph Nader. The effort backfired in one respect: though the skit was indeed amusing, Nader portrayed himself altogether too accurately as a driven zealot. Congressmen agree that Nader does his homework, but they are repelled by his insistence that his position is the only morally right one. Says Representative David Obey, Wisconsin Democrat: "Members are just fed up with being equated with evil if they vote against Nader...