Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Belt beer. They also mulled over the tout sheet of Local Handicapper Duane Krause, who goes by the pen name "Timber Savage." Savage and most of the smart money favored George Attla, a lame, one-eyed Athapascan Indian from Fairbanks, Alaska. Others leaned toward Harris Dunlap, a former art teacher from Bakers Mills in New York's Adirondacks...
...most profoundly evolutionary, if not downright revolutionary, music of our time. It is somber, dark music that is not primarily intended to provide instant pleasure. Composing thus, Carter is a true child of the age of anxiety, but in matters of compositional style he is essentially fatherless. No one teacher, composer or school of thought can be said to have created him. The higher mathematics of his music represents his own laboriously worked out solutions to the challenges of modern theory. In effect, he creates a new language each time, then writes the piece. Of Carter's independence Violinist...
...said the college curriculum now provides almost all courses necessary for teacher certification, but it does not include "active classroom experience," which the Ed school proposal would provide...
...affirmative-action goals. On the other hand, affirmative action came under attack for its seeming bias against white males. Complaints were so strong that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare was forced to announce in December that its regulations did not mean that a black or a woman teacher had to be hired over a more qualified white man. Nonetheless, schools are still under pressure to diversify their staffs. And all kinds of enterprises are in a quandary over how to formulate a policy for layoffs...
...rural population. Already thousands of small holders have been forced off their land, some at gunpoint. In a few cases, huts were burned to force peasants into unfinished villages with roofless homes and no running water. So far Nyerere, who is still respectfully called Mwalimu (Swahili for teacher), has not been widely blamed for the bungling. But discontent is deepening. Signs have appeared on the walls of Dar es Salaam: MWALIMU, IF YOU ARE TIRED OF RUNNING THE COUNTRY, LET SOMEONE ELSE...