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When Merton entered the monastery 43 years ago, Roman Catholic religious orders were faithful to the rigorous disciplines of old. A little-known New York writer and teacher whose life had been rakish though not quite dissolute, he converted from irreligion to Catholicism at 23 and stunned friends three years later by joining the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, commonly known as Trappists. The monks of Gethsemani lived on prayer, hard manual toil, vegetables and little else. Under the rule of silence, all conversation was forbidden...
Moskow, a math teacher at Los Angeles' Foshay Junior High School, is one of eight Hotline regulars who run the show, rotating 15-minute stints on-camera. Says he: "I love talking to the students. When one takes the time to call Homework Hotline, he really wants to understand." Hotline opens the phones on its special number, 1-800-LASTUDY, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., with the teachers joined by a squad of college student tutors who help keep up with the weekly average of 600 calls. Routine questions are dealt with quickly. The more intriguing ones like...
...growing number of cities, using only telephones, operate thriving hotlines. Brooklyn's Central Library, with funding from the New York City board of education, runs a homework hotline Monday through Thursday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for all twelve grades. Another New York student service, Dial-A-Teacher, gets a fair number of calls from mothers and fathers trying to be home tutors. "Parents generally say to us that math is taught so much differently from when they attended school," observes Betty Holmes of the sponsoring United Federation of Teachers...
...Barbarian and Donald Duck. "It's fun," says Powel Pupil Richard Williams, 9, adding that at home he hails his father with "Salve!"At New York City's private Trinity School, eighth-graders take turns reading aloud about a freed slave who owns a glassmaking shop. Teacher Cornelia Iredell spices the session by mixing in bits of grammatical instruction with the information that Roman merchants had to pay protection money to hoods in order to keep stores from being trashed...
...Chicago public school, Teacher Robert Creighton wraps himself in a sheet before entering class. "When I walk into the room in a toga," he explains, "I've got everyone's attention." He holds it with a Latin version of What's My Line?, spelling bees and a puppet show starring a mouse named Equus Eddie. In Fairfax, Va., Maureen O'Donnell awards daily bonus points to high school students who can pick out pop items like Top 40 song titles scribbled in Latin on the blackboard...