Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reading the article about U.S. households without television [Nov. 8] reminded me of my ninth-grade English class. The teacher, who was loud in her disapproval of television and proud that she did not own one, gave my class the assignment of writing an original short story. The world of literature was not shaken by the results. However, a handful of ingenious students, well aware of the fact that Miss Y. did not watch television, proceeded to paraphrase recent Alfred Hitchcock programs. Needless to say, they received A's and flowery praises for their original ideas, organized plots...
...winner was Chobyo Yara, 65, a onetime high school physics teacher who campaigned on the simple platform of fukki, meaning literally "return again," or reunion with Japan at once. His conservative opponent, Junji Nishime, called for ittaika, literally "making one body," or reunion with Japan in a more gradual fashion that would not plunge prospering Okinawans back to a "barefoot existence and sweet-potato diet." In the noisiest campaign in Okinawa's history, Nishime came off second best. When he cornered Yara in a television debate on the economic consequences of U.S. withdrawal (U.S. spending accounts for half...
Dressed in a blue blouse and grey skirt and wearing a new, close-cropped hairdo, Folk Singer Joan Baez looked more like yesterday's gym teacher than today's pop protester. She was beginning to sound different, too, as she conducted a press conference prior to an L.A. one-night stand. On campus demonstrations: "Downright silly. You don't accomplish anything by breaking in and smoking the president's cigars." On the convention demonstrations in Chicago: "Really filthy." On politics: "It is patronizing for white liberals to swing along with the Black Panther Party...
...bravura portrayal of Clarence Darrow and Fredric March's performance as William Jennings Bryan in the movie Inherit the Wind, a reenactment of the 1925 Scopes "monkey trial." That classic courtroom confrontation seemed to come from another era, a benighted past when a 24-year-old substitute biology teacher named John T. Scopes was actually indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in a Tennessee schoolroom. But that era was not so distant after...
Freedom of Speech. The victory was won by Mrs. Jon O. Epperson, a onetime biology teacher at Little Rock's Central High School* now living with her husband and baby son in a Maryland suburb of Washington. Despite the law, textbooks teaching evolutionary theory have been commonly used in Arkansas schools, and no teacher has been prosecuted. But in 1966 Mrs. Epperson went to court contending that the use of the books made her a lawbreaker. The statute called for punishment by dismissal and a fine of up to $500. That, argued Mrs. Epperson, inhibited her freedom of speech...