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Launched a year ago by George H. Baird, former research head of the Shaker Heights schools, the council is a nonprofit corporation of experts, who recommend improvements and charge the schools a modest fee to put ideas to work. "The nation has 603 organizations doing educational research," says Director Baird. "We are the only one set up specifically to make research available in the classroom...
...career was not enough, and during the Depression, Adam Powell emerged as a Negro nationalist and a skilled leader. He helped establish a church relief program in Harlem, dished out a thousand free meals a day in the church basement, quickly became a civic mover and shaker. He early recognized and utilized the latent strength of Harlem, was able to force such commercial giants as Liggett Drug stores and Consolidated Edison to employ Negroes. When the New York Telephone Co. balked at his demands, Powell threatened to disrupt the system by instructing his followers to dial the operator for every...
...Shakers distrusted the ornamental; they avoided both "carpenter Gothic" and Victorian arabesques. Their furniture is functional to a T, and yet their tools are subtly shaped to charm the eye and hand. The Shaker wheelbarrow opposite, for example, looks as elegantly clean-lined as a Ferrari...
...their dedicated isolation, Shaker communities hit on a host of new forms and techniques that have become commonplace. Before the Civil War, Shakers invented a flat broom, a wheel-driven washing machine, a circular saw, a tilt-back chair (on ball-and-sockets) and, a century before its use in medicine, electric shock therapy, using a primitive static-electricity generator...
...with so much modern design, even the best Shaker products are sometimes a bit chill. But their merging of severity and grace is unparalleled...