Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They come for different reasons. An engineer from Boston comes four nights a week after spending the day designing hospital buildings. "When I went to school," he says, "I got plenty of math and science, but little else. Now I can finally learn something about the Humanities and Social Sciences. Last year I even took a course in practical composition, and now even I can understand the memos I write...
Last year, students in Nat Sci 110, "Automatic Computing," and other students in Computer, Math, Applied Math, Economics and Physics courses were allowed to use the computer terminals only between 6 p.m. and midnight. This accounted for long lines each night at computer terminals in the Science Center and at Quincy and Currier Houses...
...latest example of Raspberry's painstaking approach dealt with an explosive issue: the performance of students in Washington's predominantly black public school system. Recent tests showed that local pupils are year by year falling farther behind the national norms in reading and math. The release of these findings brought charges-most notably from Barbara Sizemore, a dynamic black who is Washington's new school superintendent-that the tests themselves are "culturally biased" against ghetto children. But Raspberry was dissatisfied with that familiar argument, calling it "a sort...
...writer for the Show Business section before turning movie critic and essayist. This week he was back at his old haunt for our story on the renaissance of magic. Over the years, Kanfer has worked on enlarging his bag of tricks. He has learned hundreds of card stunts, math games and vanishing acts from his friend, Science Writer Martin Gardner, through whom he met other magicians willing to share their secrets. Among Kanfer's most prominent mentors is James ("The Amazing") Randi, who served as an informal consultant for the current story. "Steve has been a really good student...
...notorious for staring in the rear-view mirror," says Semipro Charles Reynolds, picture editor of Popular Photography. "As I figure it, all the evidence indicates that one day people will look back at this period and call it a magicians' renaissance." Reynolds is putting his money where his math is. This fall he will open a theater-restaurant à la Magic Castle in New York's Greenwich Village...