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...last week were sponsoring a dazzling roundup of his work in Chicago's Art Institute. Based largely on huge blowups from a photo essay by Photographer John Szarkowski (The Idea of Louis Sullivan; University of Minnesota; $10), the exhibition reaffirms the reputation of Sullivan, the man his old pupil, Frank Lloyd Wright, still refers to as Lieber Meister, as the first U.S. poet of the skyscraper...
According to Mary Schoenheit, "our public schools are antiquated institutions consuming our children's lives and our money and giving us in return trained seals who balance balls on their noses and bark at the right signal." Each pupil must progress at the same rate, and the result is that the school "molds little minds in the same groove, standardizes the children and stifles initiative." For the last month Mrs. Schoenheit has been giving her little Mary lessons in writing, reading, spelling, arithmetic, history and geography. She has also added Spanish and violin lessons. "Mary," she insists, "has done...
...permit integration anyway and support its school on its own? To prevent that-and to make sure that the drastic fundwithholding idea will be only a last resort -the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate passed three supplementary bills to keep segregation as safe as possible: ¶The "pupil placement" bill sets up a special board, appointed by the governor, to classify and assign all public-school pupils. If a parent becomes dissatisfied with the board's decision, he will have to appeal to the governor, and, if still dissatisfied, start legal proceedings that would probably take at least...
...Cologne, Germany, an autocratic, absent-minded composer named Karlheinz Stockhausen has fun supplying the state-run West German Radio with electronic music. Many of the sounds he makes resemble those of the Barrons, but his attitude is at the opposite esthetic pole. A conservatory pupil first, then an electronic expert, he composes on paper (his scores suggest a cross between economists' graphs and architects' schemes), then reduces his ideas to sound. This involves great concentration and endless experiment...
Wood and Pask got so interested in the teaching problem that they created an electronic pupil named Eucrates I,* to give the electronic teacher a real workout. Eucrates is electronic but not bright. When not being taught, he is "thinking" in a confused way, and the electronic teacher must take account of his thinking habits. Eucrates follows instructions and observes clues, but is often wrong. If the teacher is too severe or goes too fast, Eucrates shows signs of electronic emotion, equivalent to bursting into tears. Then the electronic teacher is gentle with him until his little dials have stopped...