Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Teacher Toll. The President declared his resolve before the kind of audience he likes-12,000 school administrators-in a place he has reason to regard fondly, Convention Hall in Atlantic City, where the Democratic Party acclaimed him as its presidential candidate 18 months ago. A dense fog that forced the cancellation of all commercial landings almost kept him away. But, braving a 100-ft. ceiling, he flew in aboard a Convair, soon was standing before the educators...
...nchez proposes a public corporation to raise investment capital at home. He aims to check inflationary land speculation, carry on large-scale road-construction projects, build new schools and hospitals, double teacher training, reform the fragmented housing program and-to help pay for it all-boost taxes. The only conspicuous initiative absent from his 85 points is an attempt to start a meaningful birth-control campaign, the one sure solution to the island's spiraling population...
...someone did not paint, he could take care of that too, for Hofmann was a born teacher. His knowledge of the convulsions of 20th century art was firsthand. He had known Picasso, worked alongside Matisse in sketch classes in Paris. Synthesizing such high-key colorism with cubism, he practiced and preached an intuitive, joyous abstract expressionism. His doctrine of "push and pull," by which he tried to reintroduce the tensions once created by depth perspective into the picture plane, flattened by modern artists, became the byword of abstract expressionism, and he himself became the movement's prime mentor...
Died. Hans Hofmann, 85, pioneer, teacher and father confessor of U.S. abstract expressionism; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Book Exposure Program; Holmes Hall Concert Series Secretary; Dormitory Committee, Quincy-Holmes Representative; Teacher-Aide Program...