Word: math
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Imagine a somewhat insecure Bertolt Brecht writing a kind of Man of La Mancha about Maxim Gorky, the Russian Revolution and its after math. Add to this some of the folk flavor of Fiddler on the Roof and you get a rough approximation of what a strange and ambitious amalgam is represented by this musical now at Manhattan's American Place Theater...
Today, Manter Hall is a private high school. Robert J. Hall, the director and the driving force behind the school, describes its curriculum as "a straight and traditional college prep program," focusing on math, science and foreign languages. The coeducational school has 50 students and ten full-time teachers. Hall says that Manter Hall's chief strength is its small classes, which range in size from "four or five to a maximum of ten or twelve." "Students can really benefit from this extra attention," he notes...
...took two years, although one of my friends whispered the news to me triumphantly as soon as I walked in the door to her room freshman week. Another friend got herself very deliberately drunk and deflowered in the course of one afternoon after a particularly grueling math exam. To this day she refers to the experience as "a clinical procedure." But I think in each case the overwhelming emotion was relief, tinged with a vague disappointment: we had finally grappled our way out of the cocoon, but only to discover that we were still caterpillars...
...That's bad in terms of someone's personal development," Fath says "It stems from a lack of confidence, not from confidence. White people don't come here and say, 'I'm going to show blacks [that I can major in applied math...
...Besides, the idea of one black person in applied math changing white racist attitudes is ridiculous...