Word: teaching
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Fred and "Vinnie" are related by English department only; both teach at a university in upstate New York. Fred's feminist wife Ruth has decided to stay in America...
...graduate people who do not take social, economic, and political actions to make a better world--then we will never have a better world. And how better to teach students than to let them see the University putting its money where its mouth...
...Some people say that education is better when everyone is in sack cloths and ashes. That's fine when you are reading Plato by yourself," says Mason. "But you can't teach in facilities that are not up to speed...You can't get 50 students to interact well without good facilities...
Richard Mulligan is the only glimmer of brightness in the mawkishness. He plays a harmless loony accidentally recruited as an emergency substitute teacher. Mulligan is the only person ever shown as teaching, albeit in the unusual format of dressing up as Lincoln, Washington, and Custer. He is the only actor who invests his part with the gentleness that great teachers possess. But Mulligan's work is wasted. No actor can really shine in a role that is essentially a bad joke. Yes, you guessed it: "You have to be crazy to teach...
This performance will culminate the work of Citystep, a new arts outreach program which brings undergraduates into local elementary and junior high schools to teach students the art of dance theater. Over the course of a semester, the dancers hope to show the 10- to 12-year-old students how to express their emotions through movement and dance...