Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least dangerous breakdown in public services was the most serious. For the third time since September, the majority of the city's 58,000 teachers defied state law to go out on strike, and more than a million students were denied the vital right of education. Teachers marched outside their schools, and children watched as picketers traded insults and obscenities with nonstrikers and parents. With picket lines drawn in front of the schools where many people vote, there was fear that even the election might be disrupted...
...medium-sized cities. Traffic is scarcely better; every day 3,500,000 people crowd into nine square miles of Manhattan south of Central Park, the equivalent of transporting every man, woman and child in Connecticut into Bridgeport and out again each day. From the visible evidence, the sanitation strike might still be on, and blowing papers and scattered heaps of filth testify to perhaps the most
...city's guarantees for their safety, he struck yet a third time a fortnight ago. Nothing would end the impasse, he vowed, but the dismissal of the Ocean Hill board and Rhody McCoy, the local administrator-in other words, an effective end to the troublesome decentralization experiment. "This strike is not going to be broken," Shanker said last week. "We're going to win." Replied McCoy: "We don't intend to capitulate...
...this, and of such acts as teachers showing hatred of one another." The children most in need of schooling are the most affected, noted Harry Beilin, a professor of education and psychology at the City University of New York. He said: "The long-term effect of the strike is an undermining of the ability to respect authority." For those in high school, particularly students who hope to go to college, a protracted strike could be catastrophic...
Ironically, the area least affected by the strike is Rhody McCoy's eight-school Ocean Hill-Brownsville district. Recruit ed during the summer from all parts of the country, McCoy's temporary teachers form one of the brainiest public school staffs in the country. Eager, dedicated and inventive, with a heavy emphasis on the Ivy League-"I'm a bum," quips one principal, "but all my teachers wear Brooks Brothers suits"-they come early and stay late, refusing to bow to the stale pedagogic commands that emanate from 110 Livingston Street, the Board of Education...