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...near the Yorkshire Dales ("We used to pee at the junction of the Ribble and Aire rivers to see whose would go to the Irish Sea and whose would go to the North Sea!"), ignoring the advice of theater directors ("barnstorm führers, the lot") and mocking "gibberish spouting" method actors. "When you're playing Hamlet, and you and Horatio are up on the battlements, Horatio says, 'But, look, the morn in russet mantle clad/ Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.' Well, it isn't! You're looking at Charlie the prop man with...
...Feminist, Marxist, and black Crits, but this made no difference. In the already-tense climate of HLS, his comments did not go unpunished. Administrators would later declare attendance of Rosenberg’s course to be optional, effectively repudiating the Socratic method—HLS’s rigorous method of questioning students—for that course...
...after a long fight with cancer, once wore his power lightly. He had a sly sense of humor-invaluable for a priest named Sin-and some of his sharper critiques of the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos came in the form of jokes and quips. That gentle method of opposition gave way to something bolder on Feb. 22, 1986, when Sin told Manila's residents to go out into the streets to protect military men who had split from Marcos; this turned into the potent force now known as People Power. Following Marcos' ouster, Sin was hailed as a hero...
...Vienna-born, he emigrated to the U.S. at 27 and wrote more than 20 books about language and learning, most notably the 1955 best seller Why Johnny Can't Read, which attacked the flash-card school of reading instruction and sparked a resurgence of the more traditional phonetic method of sounding out words syllable by syllable. A readability test devised by Flesch spurred a generation of journalists to write short, uncomplicated sentences but caused critics to complain that his tenets shackled richness and complexity...
...York City. A tight-lipped woman in a man's world, Crawford staged more than 100 plays--among them Waiting for Lefty (1935), Porgy and Bess (1942) and Mother Courage (1963)--that helped charge American theater with a social conscience as well as the intensely psychological style of Method acting...