Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some opponents of a concentration argue there are not many courses because there are not enough people interested in taking them. Jeanine Dobbs, preceptor in expository writing and the teacher of the "women in history" expos section, says she was somewhat discouraged about the apparent lack of interest when it first appeared that not enough people would choose her expos section to fill it. The women's studies committee says this supposed lack of interest may be caused by a lack of communication...
...different show every night it plays. The rotating cast members are all thirty-ish people-next-door types--versatile, and stocked with every improvisational trick in the book. One night last week, the actress near the top of the pile played, among other things, Liv Ullman, a second-grade teacher, a cabinet member, a sex fiend, and Pittsburgh, all in two hours. The next night, I hear, she played Monty Hall, Karen Quinlan, and Elizabeth, New Jersey simultaneously. Wouldn't bet against...
...seventh-grade English teacher. All my students watched Roots. The effect on them was not a step toward interracial unity. They were confused and upset, and reacted by calling one another "Masser" and "Nigger...
Died. Bertram D. Wolfe, 81, a founder of the U.S. Communist Party in 1919 who later became a scholarly, vocal foe of Communism; of burns received when his clothing caught fire at home; in San Jose, Calif. As a Brooklyn high school teacher, Wolfe was fascinated by the Russian Revolution and became a Communist organizer and teacher. In 1929 he traveled to Moscow for the Third Communist International, where he jousted verbally with Stalin, Trotsky and Molotov. This temerity won him two months' detention; Wolfe's disillusionment with totalitarianism soon followed. He turned to historical examinations of Communism...
...ripple in a wave of muckraking that has washed away the glowing image of the scientist as some kind of superman. Scientists now appear to be as fallible as the politicians with whom they increasingly consort. In Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena, two academic scientists, Physics Teacher Joel Primack of the University of California and Environmentalist Frank von Hippel of Princeton, present case histories documenting the tendency of many scientists to "look the other way" when the Government wants to lie about technical matters. A scholarly polemic by Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power, scathes...