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Under Adler's spell, the great ideas take on palpable form. To make them concrete, he talks about triangles and squares, black swans and schnauzers, vanilla ice cream and boxes of ball bearings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maryland: Adolescents, Aristotle and Adler | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

Burger urged that at the least, every inmate should be taught to "read, write, spell and do simple arithmetic." He asked: "Without these basic skills, what chances does any person have of securing a gainful occupation?" He also proposed that vocational training be expanded for longer-term prisoners and that language and craft courses be mandatory. Sentences, he suggested, could be shortened for those inmates who "cooperate by learning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prison Nightmare | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

...troublesome question already emerging from the brief spell of this company's residence at Harvard is neither artistic--are the shows good or bad?--nor academic--do the courses do their job? It lies between these two concerns, in a grey area where the professional and academic ideals of theater clash...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: ART in Retrospect: Textual Ethics | 6/3/1981 | See Source »

Terry Bradshaw, the man Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson said could not spell the word "cat" if you spotted him the "c" and the "a," will receive an honorary doctorate in the humanities from his almost mater, Louisiana Tech, on Saturday. The presentation will take place at the school's commencement ceremonies at Aillet Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 5/20/1981 | See Source »

...account did not ring true at the London Daily Mail. After an investigation, the Daily Mail labeled the column "viciously anti-British" and "a pack of lies," with at least 14 errors or outright fabrications. Its chief accusation: Daly's principal source, a British soldier named Christopher Spell, did not exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Mugging Truth | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

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