Word: small-group
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...GILLESPIE must never have had a brush with the collection agency: there is no fading, only gleam on Dizzy's Diamonds (Verve), a 3-CD collection spanning 1950 to 1964. Grouped into three broad grooves -- Big Band, small group and Afro-Cuban -- these 40 wondrous cuts show Dizzy setting the pace for some fast company, including Stan Getz, Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. The Big Band material blasts, the small-group sides jump, and the Afro-Cuban tunes sound drivingly modern. Dizzy is an Eldorado that never runs on empty...
English was one of the last big departments at Harvard to hold year-long, one-on-one junior tutorials. Now, individual junior tutorials for honors students last only a semester. A small-group seminar fills the other semester...
...time of the curriculum's inception, some critics wondered whether New Pathway students would gain a solid enough grounding in the basic sciences to become competent doctors. Others questioned whether the program's emphasis on small-group interactions between faculty and students would be transferable to schools without Harvard's financial resources...
...central part of the New Pathway curriculum is the tutorial, in which students have a chance to delve into a wide range of case studies and discuss them in a small-group format under the guidance of a faculty member...
Both American and Soviet behavioral scientists have begun to investigate small-group dynamics, which are likely to assume considerable significance during extended spaceflight. "There are always minor irritations involved in working with other people," says Psychologist Clay Foushee, of NASA's Ames Research Center. "Normally, these are not a problem because you can get up and move away. The trouble occurs when you can't leave a situation." That trouble can become catastrophic. Long Antarctic expeditions, which involve small groups isolated for months, have been marred by fights and occasional violence...