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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sometime toward the end of the spring the word "workshop" was introduced into the discussions about the Program. It was generally used to refer to the teaching unit in which the Program experience would occur; but beyond this, no one was sure exactly what it meant. It was a word upon which different teachers were free to put different interpretations. It was an empty cauldron into which a variety of educational ideas and attitudes might be poured...
Results indicate, in summary, that although Harvard's influence leads to re-examination of beliefs it rarely induces a reversal of beliefs, and that the period of secondary school education is the one in which occur most significant transitions from family tradition. The College thus attracts the questioning student; it does not produce...
...such a reaction did occur, when did significant doubt start...
...John Patterson, as bitter a segregationist as adorns the Deep South, last week underwent the political equivalent of a cross burning. A delegation of 32 racists from around the state descended upon his office to demand his answers to a prepared list of loaded questions. Sample: "Did it ever occur to you that you are being used as a guinea pig by the Communist-Jewish integrators to sample the political sentiment of the South for a most distasteful candidate, John Kennedy?" Patterson, caught in a web he had helped spin, retorted a bit helplessly. "Kennedy is a friend," he said...
...their next conversation together, Miss McKenna makes one serious mistake. It arises from the second of two noteworthy features of the play's language: (1) no other of the Bard's works contains such a high percentage of words or forms that occur only once in the author's entire output (these go under the technical name of hapax legomena); (2) no other of his works contains so large a proportion of lines that are susceptible of multiple readings, sometimes even to the point of totally reversing the meaning...