Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Happy People Go, the group's biggest hit. They are a congenial trio who have their eyes ever on the latest trend. The Trammps feature the new disco dances like the Abbey (danced in a crouch) and the Sly (mostly a series of jumps, splits and kickouts) and teach them to their audiences. Says Young: "We sort of look at ourselves as the Johnny Appleseeds of disco...
...icumen in," but he is unimpressed with her scholarship, and he is furious at her for getting an affirmative action resolution to hire women passed. They confer often, he giving her a tutorial on the politics of the place; then their intellectual flirtation turns into an affair. They teach a course together. When the students read Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Parker and Welter wear twin T shirts, hers labeled ZENOBIA (the romantic feminist who kills herself), and his COVERDALE (the narrator). Nothing sneaky about their relationship. Hell, the whole school knows about it. All they have...
...large part, language study is thriving at Dartmouth because of the ebullient personality and unique teaching method of John Rassias, professor of Romance languages and literature. A University of Bridgeport graduate, Rassias, 50, first developed his system when he went to Dartmouth in 1965 to teach a crash course for Peace Corps volunteers heading for French-speaking areas of West Africa. Staying on to teach Dartmouth undergraduates, Rassias used his crash method for both French and Greek...
...French philosopher Diderot, Rassias shows up in class in a blond wig, breeches and billowing shirt and proceeds to act out the emotional states that Diderot argued are unique to man. Rage, for instance, is depicted by heaving a chair across the room. Says Rassias: "If you want to teach, you have to be willing to walk out of class exhausted...
...demonstrated merit," made a film of Rassias in action, and sent out word about it to 2,500 college presidents and deans. According to Rassias, some adaptation of his drills could be used for any kind of class. "Hell," says he, "we should be using this method to teach English to English-speaking people. It makes them better communicators in any language...