Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brown-haired woman in her middle fifties walked into a crowded basement room of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. She walked to the front of the room, smiled a pleasant motherly smile and said "My name is Evelyn Wood. I've come all the way from Utah to teach you to read faster than you've ever dreamed possible...
Professional reputations are at stake. One highly-regarded reading authority accused Evelyn Wood of being a "speed merchant." In 1962, George D. Spache, director of the reading laboratory and clinic at the University of Florida, wrote: "Furthermore, if anyone offers to teach you or your pupils to read at speeds in thousands of words per minute..., the kindest thing you can say to him is that he is completely ignorant of the nature of the act of reading...
...outline for national organizing against the war first appeared in a pamphlet by Gar Alperovitz, fellow of the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics. Entitled "Teach Out," the pamphlet was distributed to peace marchers in New York and San Francisco...
...fifth is a measure of teaching work load, defined by dividing a fellow's total work and study time into five equal parts. Under this system, most TF's teach two or three fifths, receiving at most $2400 or $3600 per year...
...next week would be devoted to just that, through meetings, teach-ins, contacting community groups, etc., to recruit people for civil disobedience. Then after a week of mobilization the first wave of people would go to jail-probably in Washington, in demonstrations aimed at the Executive. Starting with perhaps fifty or a hundred people would be sent in waves each day, increasing in number. There would be a serious attempt to have each wave led by prestigious people and to use the press and the media as much as possible. Jail without bail for many is important, probably critical. People...