Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disingenuous of Muhammad Kenyatta and BLSA to label the PLO representative's talk "a private teach-in on the Palestinian issue." For, as I and Prof. Patterson argued in our letter, at Harvard or any other university the norms of fairness and free speech mandate that a "teach-in" be an inclusive event, not an exclusive...
...Suppose that a hypothetical Harvard Anti-Abortion Association and a Harvard Pro-Sexism Club invited Phyllis Schlafly to a "private teach-in on pro-sexism". Would the norms of fairness and free speech be violated? You bet they would, and the Harvard feminist groups would, view them as having been violated (and rightly so). Or suppose a not so hypothetical Harvard Conservative Club and the editors of the Harvard Salient invited the Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan to a "private teach-in on states rights". Would the norms of fairness and free speech be violated? You bet they...
...these analogies to the BLSA's phony characterization of the PLO representative's talk as "a private teach-in" are probably not necessary, because the BLSA claims in its letter that "they (Harvard Jewish Law School Association members) were invited to observe the teach-in." It seems Muhammad Kenyatta and BLSA want to-have-their-cake-and-eat-it with a vengeance...
Ever since Harbin's newspaper began to publish stories about him, Bai has become a local celebrity. He smiles ruefully as he describes how scores of young people have walked into his shop just to meet him. "Some ask me for advice," he says. "Some ask me to teach them, some show an interest in my life." Bai has also received more than 300 fan letters, including a few marriage proposals...
...must have occurred to everyone who has ever tried to teach a course in creative writing: What would happen if an authentic genius somehow stumbled into class? But it is Romulus Linney who has finally done something wonderful with the notion. In P.M., the masterly miniature that is the centerpiece in this evening of one-acters off-Broadway, he places at one end of the seminar table a prim-looking teacher (Frances Sternhagen) whose lack of success as a novelist has not yet sapped her idealism. At the other end sits Bufford Bullough (Leon Russom). Bufford looks like Thomas Wolfe...