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Last September I had the chance to teach some children how to write poetry on Cleveland's East Side and to test out some of Kenneth Koch's theories about how it should be done. I first came across Koch a couple of years ago in his book, Wishes, Lies and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry, a collection of kids' poems prefaced by some lengthy remarks on teaching. I was intrigued with Koch's central idea: people's imaginations are more readily available to them when they are young; it's important to tap that flow before...
...round the country. Senate investigators claim that CHAMPUS administrators do not properly check out facilities before handing over money. Green Valley, they point out, has received $1.2 million from the Government over a three-year period to perpetrate outrages that Committee Chairman Henry Jackson called worthy of "Hitler, Use Koch and Buchenwald...
...handful of others, has been trying since 1971 to elevate preventive medicine from its marginal importance at the Medical School. But his success has been limited. After a steady diet of Dr. Kildaire and Marcus Welby, Americans are conditioned to curative medicine. "It's natural," says Dr. Dieter Koch Weser, associative dean of the Faculty of Medicine and a close friend of Karefa-Smart. "Someone comes to you with a high fever, you give him antibiotics, and two days later, you have accomplished a minor miracle. It's dramatic. But if you walk into a village, line up 200 children...
Poet Kenneth Koch teaches Manhattan children how to write poetry. (The poems accompanying the color spread are by his students.) Koch recalls: "When I began to teach I was reminded how intelligent kids are, that kids talk to animals-and that they are concerned with really important things which they usually won't tell an adult. They are concerned with the same things I'm concerned about-love and lost love, friendship, success, perceptions, and being liked-only perhaps more intensely." They are also nostalgic for the past, says Koch...
Representative Edward I. Koch (D-N.Y.) last week told a Congressional committee investigating foundations that some states could now take actions against foundations that the Federal Government could not. He pointed out that some of these states could remove directors who spent foundation funds for improper sources...