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...event would be organized, but the doors opened at 5:15 [p.m.], and not 5:30, when it was supposed to happen, so when we came at 5:20, the place was already packed and we could not find any seats,” said high school Spanish teacher Jesus Meneses...
Except in my high school. At my high school, we knew how to confront disaster! One bright spring day, we all filed out to the football field after school. A teacher had placed fluorescent cones from the field house in a big rectangle to represent Colorado. (In retrospect, it seems fortunate that the tragedy did not occur in, say, Hawaii.) We all jostled into the outline. Taking direction from someone standing in the bleachers, a group of athletes in bright-red varsity jackets clustered in a heart shape in the center of the crowd. They were supposed to represent...
...humans are gamblers by nature, incorrigible ones, but we're not stupid gamblers: we need to know what the odds are and when the fix is in. So let's extend our posthumous thanks to poor fools like Albert Einstein--as well as to Einstein's high school teacher, who once made the following immortal prediction to Einstein's father: "It doesn't matter what he does--he will never amount to anything...
Marceau says his largest influence is Charlie Chaplin, because unlike Marceau’s master teacher Etienne Decroux, Chaplin demonstrated the ability to show humor within tragedy. Marceau believes that this sense of “tragicomedy” truly reflects the essence of human life. In the first act of his show at the ART, Marceau proves the effectiveness of such a paradox when Marceau’s alter ego, Bip, laments his inability to adequately perform as a lion tamer...
Although music is used in the performance, the company rehearsed almost entirely in silence, receiving the music composed for the show about two days before their first performance. Massip says that, like his teacher Decroux, he personally sings to himself in his head to keep the rhythm and timing of his movements but that the company members generally pay more attention to each other than to their musical accompaniment...