Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOWN STAIRCASE. In this skillful culling of memorable moments from Bel Kaufman's bestselling book about a teacher's struggle in a slum high school, Sandy Dennis re-creates the tyro schoolmarm with considerable grace...
...most of which are in the South-are increasingly under student fire for appearing to cooperate with local white leaders. "Even among the apathetic students, there's a feeling that they are not going to find solutions with white people any more," says George McMillan, a white journalism teacher at Clark College. "There is more sense of blackness," agrees Spelman College Senior Eulalia Harris, a Negro, "and more desire to make the black community stronger rather than integrate...
...their campus goals. At no school has that threat proved more effective than at California's San Jose State College (enrollment: 23,000), where a mere 60 Negro students last month threatened to burn the campus down unless discrimination against them was stopped. The students' leader, Sociology Teacher Harry Edwards, a towering (6 ft. 8 in.) former San Jose basketball star, contended that Negro students could not find decent housing in San Jose, Negro athletes on road trips were assigned rooms by race, and white fraternities banned Negroes...
...park, barely foul. So here was the kid's chance to try to put one into Kenmore Square, be a super-hero, and get half a dozen stories in the next morning's Boston Globe about his wife, his children, his dog, his first grade teacher, his parents, his favorite brand of breakfast food...
...runs in the spring. Did this make him just a promising rookie? No. It made him God. Day after day, a George Scott story was as regular a feature in the paper as the television listing. WILL GEORGE SCOTT BREAK BABE'S RECORD? INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE'S FIRST GRADE TEACHER. GEORGE'S MOTHER SAYS GEORGE IS A GOOD BOY. So when Scott flopped from July to September, it was not merely a case of a hot rookie turning cold. It was those cruel workings of fate again...