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Instead, he suggested that a short moment of undirected affect meditation would be more appropriate. "If a period of brief prayer is wanted, there is a simple way to have it: a moment of silent meditation, during which each pupil may commune either in prayer or either form of solemn thought, as his upbringing and his spirit may prompt...
...Full of Talent." Schulberg has found that the ghetto is "full of talent, full of innate ability," and his charges have already produced enough poetry to consider publishing an anthology to be called Voices of Watts (see box). Star pupil is unquestionably Johnie Scott, 20, who was born in the ward of a women's prison, nonetheless won a scholarship to Harvard but dropped out after a year. Scott, whose poem bad news has been published in Los Angeles magazine, has been contacted by Alfred A. Knopf Inc. and Harper's magazine, is planning to return to college...
David Wheeler, the director, has added a mixed bag of incidental touches to the play. His staging of the scene in which the professor gives the pupil imaginary ears and noses works brilliantly. But as a whole the play is sustained by two fine performances proceeding independently of any overall conception. Tambor and Miss Channing, in fact, seem on occasion to proceed independently of each other as well...
...goals that he advocates, the good scholar or the good pupil gives the closest attention. He rises in holy anger if you tell him, however tactfully, that he doesn't know what he is about. And usually, in fact, he does. He has given his objectives a lot of thought. But then he signs a petition, grabs a sign, or joins a delegation without giving a moment's consideration as to whether this is an effective way of advancing his goals...
...educators, labor-union representatives and public officials, the council dreamed up a 104-page report that seemed to ask for a pie in every sky. Specifically, it called for sterner enforcement of civil rights statutes, "guaranteed employment" for all able to work, and equalization throughout the country of per-pupil spending on public education while nearly doubling the figure to $1,000 a year...