Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...philosopher get thrown together by the two great college mixers, the introductory writing class and the vacation road trip. In first year writing class. Alison discovers that her writing is as dry as Gib's sex life, while Gib realizes that, Faulkner excepted, writing requires something resembling sentences Their teacher. Professor Traub (Viveca Lindfors), runs her writing class like a laboratory in life, passing by the usual that which distinction for such advice as "Talk to people whose clothes are not color coordinated Make love in a hammock...
...corridors of Washington. "How can you measure it?" he asks. "In the suffering of a people? In the recesses of history?" The questions are rhetorical. No gauge exists; no one has ever made the trip before. The voyage is charted in three words inscribed on his medal: AUTHOR, TEACHER, WITNESS...
...grownups had their minds on other issues. The town was still trying to recover from the deaths of two volunteer firemen. The funeral was in the high school, and everyone came. The teachers still had not settled on a new contract, the town of Sauk Centre being one of a handful in Minnesota holding out against higher pay. (During a strike a couple of years ago, "teacher lover" became an epithet thrown at anyone supporting the picket line.) The Main Street merchants were, as always, keeping a censorious eye on anyone seen taking money away from Main Street...
WHEN WESTSIDE Alternative School opened in Venice, California, it had a principal some textbooks, a few teachers, and a bunch of kids. That was it. No classrooms, no passing periods, no lenses no flagpole Classes were held on the beach pavilion or by the seashore and the principal handled his administrative chores out of a VW buy Abundance for the 250-odd students was voluntars, and everyone--teacher and pupil went by first name Parents, faculty, and students shared responsibility for all school decisions...
...laws whatsoever upholding the civil rights of homosexuals. The 1964 Civil Rights Act has not yet been broadened to include homosexuals; the Justice Department and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission are not permitted to investigate cases of discrimination against homosexuals. And two cases involving the dismissal of homosexual school teachers, one in Oklahoma and one in Ohio, have not been heard by the Supreme Court; the latter dismissal was upheld by the Court since it refused to consider an appeal, and the former is yet to be tried. Considering the Ohio case, however, it is unlikely to turn...