Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were let in to the opening of Maxwell Anderson's new play, Joan of Lorraine. Pickets protested. Star Ingrid Bergman went on with the show, but race discrimination, said she, made the capital a poor place for an opening. Playwright Robert E. Sherwood proposed that the show world teach Washington a lesson. "I believe," said he, "that it is the duty of all of us who work in the American theater ... to protest ... by agreeing that we shall keep our productions out of Washington until the ban against Negroes is abolished...
Wandering Byzantine craftsmen first brought "eikons" (images) into Russia, and set the stage for Russia's golden age (the 15th Century) of religious painting. Peter the Great hired Europeans to teach portraiture and allegorical landscape to Russian serfs (who were sometimes flogged for failure to produce a flattering likeness in good taste), turned 18th and 19th Century Russian art into a brackish backwater of the West...
...accepted favorably. The only trouble was that almost a month before the Harvard report was made, Columbia, aided by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, had most effectively implemented its own plans by signing up what amounted to the cream of the men available in the country to teach such a program...
...today that the University program on Russia is stalled for lack of men to teach it. In the Harvard faculty are some of the best men on various aspects of the Soviet Union, but they have heavy departmental duties and could not carry the load alone. The recent death of Samuel H. Cross has severely crimped the vital language side of the regional study. According to those in charge of the plan, men just cannot be found either in sufficient quantity or quality...
...there not some way to work out a program for our schools which would teach the history of religion-a non-sectarian course not only analyzing the Bible, but inviting intelligent discussion on all things theological ? We have for so many years simply accepted whatever beliefs our parents held, that most of us have ceased to think for ourselves...